In 1922 Sinclair Lewis published the book which won the Nobel Prize portraying the very special personage whose surname – Babbitt – became a household word, a symbol of middle–class Philistine. For the first time we meet George Follanbee Babbitt at his bed going to awaken and...
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The novel Babbitt was written by Sinclair Lewis in 1922. The book's main character is named George Babbitt, a real estate salesman. He lives in a city called Zenith. The character of Babbitt is a conformist, a traditionalist type who Lewis is satirizing in this novel. The events of the book...
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Not all of us can have a great escape with that fairy child in our dreams. In Chapter 1 part II of the satirical phenomenon, Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis; he really gives you something to ponder. In the previous section Lewis had just ended saying how the city of Zenith was “built-it seemed-...
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Babbitt: a person, particularly a business or professional man, who unthinkingly follows conventional middle-class ways (Merriam-Webster). George F. Babbitt of Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis: a 46-year-old American real estate salesman who conformed unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards in...
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The aspect of youth and being young is a prevalent aspect found in George Babbitt, the main character of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt. On the outside, Babbitt comes across as a very conformist and self-serving individual. However, upon further examination, Babbitt becomes less and less a prevalent...
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“You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.” — — “Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.” — Page 87 — “You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the...
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William V. Spanos's book, The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism, is less a contribution to the well-publicized ongoing debate on the politics of pedagogy than its critique. Like an intruder introducing genuine opposition into one of those homogeneous political pundit shows, Spanos collapses...
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