Babbitt

“”Babbitt”” is a novel by Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1922. The story is set in the fictional Midwestern city of Zenith and centers on George F. Babbitt, a prosperous real estate broker. Through Babbitt’s character, the novel satirizes American middle-class values, commercial culture, and the pursuit of material success in the 1920s. Babbitt is portrayed as conformist, materialistic, and socially ambitious, but as the story progresses, he experiences a crisis of identity, questioning the values and the conformist pressures of his community. The novel is both a critique of the American Dream and an exploration of the social and political landscape of the time. —- ISBN: 9798324348564