Babbitt
Babbitt is a satirical approach of describing the American middle class and it’s culture during the roaring 1920’s. The author, Sinclair Lewis, seeks to expose the conformity and emptiness that plagues the middle class community of Zenith and all of America. He shows one man’s struggle as he realizes his faults with a dull, conformed lifestyle of himself and his society. The town of Zenith shines with post World War I prosperity. It has a modern landscape of skyscrapers, factories and bustling automobiles and streets crowded with people. The neighborhood that George Babbitt lives in consists of orderly rows of pleasant, comfortable homes containing all the latest technology offered in modern conveniences and appliances. However, underneath this shiny gleam reveals a false, conformed lifestyle among the middle class. Zenith and its citizen’s are characterized by depressing standardization all with very superficial relationships and repetitive thoughts. Lewis portrays the middle class as being motivated by social status, money and material wants. George Babbitt lives the typical middle class businessman lifestyle as a Realtor. The novel reveals that Babbitt realizes that he is dissatisfied and bored with his lifestyle.
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Approximate Word count = 1449
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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