Babbitt is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.
Publication Year: 1922
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0This is supposed to be a satire of Middle American capitalism and capitalists. However, it doesn’t land. Lewis holds his protagonist, his protagonist’s milieu, and even his protagonist’s crises in such contempt that the reader is led wonder to why Lewis wrote this novel in the first place.
Moreover, the novel doesn’t even get rolling until somewhere around the 2/3 point. I mean, c’mon, Sinclair! Write with a little pep!
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