Read the excerpt from On the Road. One day I was hanging around the campus and Chad and Tim Gray told me Dean was staying in a cold-water pad in East Harlem the Spanish Harlem. Dean had arrived the night before, the first time in New York, with hi, beautiful little sharp chick Marylou; they got off the Greyhound bus at 50th Street and cut around the corner looking for a place to eat and went right in Hector's, and since then Hector's cafeteria has always been a big symbol of New York for Dean. What does this excerpt reveal about the beat generation? The beat generation was made up of middle -class youth who were seeking work after graduating college. The beat generation was made up of young people who were just beginning their lives as independent adults. The beat generation was made up of middle -aged people who had become disillusioned with life. The beat generation was made up of privileged youth who had begun attending high-profile social events.