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This paper analyzes Sinclair Lewis' novel Babbitt, and discusses how the book satirizes the American Experience.
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comfortably and to raise a good family; to have a job in which one is well-respected, and to live in a community that is a good place to do business
as well as to life and - again - is safe enough to raise a family. In his novel, Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
does a great deal of descriptive writing about the American experience and what it means to George Babbitt, the protagonist of the story. However, instead of romanticizing and idealizing the
idea of the American Experience, Lewis holds the experience up to ridicule and satire. He does so, throughout the novel, through clever use of names (that seem to coincide with
personalities) by repeated use of double standardization and finally, by showing how dull, conventional and sterile the American Experience actually is. In
the area of names, Lewis manages to find monikers that aptly describe both the Babbitts friends and colleagues, and the city in which they live. One thing that is satirized
is the name of the city in which the Babbitts live, which is called "Zenith." The term zenith, of course, means "tops" or the best; and the city tries to
live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ideas of their
own. But Zenith is not the glass and chrome utopia of the large city that chambers of commerce love to promote to businesses looking to relocate; Zenith is rife with
crime, has slums and has a lower class of income earners. These are things that chambers of commerce of large cities generally dont like to tell businesses or people who
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