Babbitt (Annotated)

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt is a penetrating satire of American middle-class life in the prosperous, standardized 1920s. Centered on George F. Babbitt, a successful real-estate broker in the fictional city of Zenith, the novel anatomizes boosterism, conformity, consumer desire, civic hypocrisy, and the uneasy emptiness beneath material comfort. Its style combines documentary realism with sharp comic ...