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Lester
Lester Lester carries the Roman military camp at its root — a name that began as geography and became identity, as the city of Leicester left its name on the English aristocracy and eventually on the general naming pool. There is something reassuringly solid about the name, suitable for a character who is fundamentally embedded in place and community even when chafing against those constraints. It suits protagonists whose struggles are the intensely ordinary ones of men shaped by and resistant to the world that made them.
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Lester Burnham
American Beauty — Alan Ball
The middle-aged suburbanite whose midlife crisis and rebellion against conformity drive Sam Mendes's film, his Latin-rooted name grounding him in the mundane castra of American domesticity.
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