RE: brushing shoulders with Holden Caulfield?

Plebe (pronounced 'ple' with an e as in set and 'be' as 've' with the same
e) is used in two ways. The first is in the sense of the people of the
neighborhood or gang but not gang in the Cryps and Bloods connotation and
the second is in a wider sense like the Gente or people of New Mexico. The
second sense is not too far away from the Latin as the P in SPQR. The Plebe
is that group of people that at some point back you share Genetics and
traditions and a chunk of meaning.
Daniel

Daniel, your portrait of your family history was great. Though I confess
to total ignorance at what a "plebe" is. (I thought it was a term that
referred to a young 'un in military school.) What does it mean in your
context? Also, speaking strictly for me, I less and less -- if I ever
did -- see myself in Holden or identify with him. Rather, he's a
personality, a type, I instantly recognize, and the part that makes him
work so well as a character is that (for me, anyhow) he is not callow, he
is sympathetic, he is confused, he is adrift. Maybe I identify with some
of those characteristics, but the world of boarding schools and Park
Avenue apartments is as alien to me, living a few minutes downtown from
all that, as it may be to you in your family community.
--tim
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