Amusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis\'s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materialism, and whose suburban targets are still much in evidence.
Yet even Babbitt dreams of romance and escape, and when his b.
Babbitt is a member of all the right clubs, and unquestioningly shares the same aspirations and ideas as his friends and fellow Boosters.
A successful real estate agent, George F.
Amusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis\'s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materialism, and whose suburban targets are still much in evidence
