Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis · audio summary, about 12 min

George F. Babbitt, a prosperous real-estate broker in the booming city of Zenith, struggles with a deep sense of dissatisfaction and rebels against the suffocating conformity of his middle-class life.

Key ideas

• Conformity and social pressure in the American middle class.
• The disillusionment and emptiness that can accompany material success.
• The search for individual identity and emotional refuge in a standardized world.
• The commercialization of spiritual, civic, and social institutions.

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