SINCLAIR LEWIS: Babbitt

Lewis continued writing during the thirties and later, but his attacks on the facets of American life formerly satirized began to soften. He wrote five novels after he was awarded the Nobel Prize but no(prenominal) of them were as highly acclaimed as those he had written up till then. However, there is much biography in the plant life of Lewis, including themes, setting and even characterization. Despite his satire of the elements of American confederation he despised, he was dualistic in his sentiments about American society as he truly lived the landscapes and raft at whom he chose quite often to poke a stick, "There is much disguised biography in Lewis' work, and many an(prenominal) suggestions of Lewis himself in his characters. A romancer as well as a realist and satirist, he loved the Babbitts and Main Streets of America even as he deplored them" (Murphy 597).

From this author I expect a critical attack on the elements and character of American society he despised while still expecting to find the genuine love for the people and places of America the author embodied.

The novel Babbitt is fundamentally about how modern society saps the potential out of humane beings because they must have a certain measure of braveness to be able to fulfill their individual potential in the face o

Mencken, H. L. Portrait of an American citizen. Light, M. (ed.). The Merrill Studies in Babbitt. Ohio, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1971: 25-27.

Lewis, S. Babbitt. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1950.

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