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Describing Sinclair Lewis’s main character from his novel, Babbitt, would present a quite simple task to many people who have read the book. Babbitt was an ignorant conformist who often took part in shady, unethical business dealings, and he was a materialistic man who discovered that his life was dismal, disappointing, and unfulfilling. It would be a great injustice, however, to leave Babbitt’s character synopsis at that and inconsiderately attribute his weaknesses to personality defects. In fact, most people belonging to the middle-class of the 1920’s experienced the same unhappiness and participated in the same shady business deals in which George Babbitt had taken part. Lewis presents George Babbitt as the typical, middle-aged, middle-class man of the time. He illustrates that Babbitt’s personality characteristics and his actions were not dictated by his own morals and standards, but instead they were controlled by the societal values and common beliefs of the middle-class that dominated the “Roaring Twenties. ... Lewis illustrates this by describing how passively the McKelvey’s treated George and Myra Babbitt on their dinner date, and then he describes how the Babbitt’s eagerly passed the favor on to the Overbrook’s, who were members of the working class. ... Babbitt realizes this when he talks with Sir Gerald Doak, the aristocrat, and he sees that they are actually alike in many ways.
Approximate Word count = 1068
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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