Babbitt

With his portrait of George F. Babbitt, the conniving, prosperous real-estate man from Zenith, Sinclair Lewis created one of the ugliest, but most convincing, figures in American fiction - the total conformist. Babbitt's demons are power in his community and the self-esteem he can only receive from others. In his attempts to reconcile these aspirations, he is loyal to whoever serves his need of the moment: time and again he proves an opportunist in business practice and in domestic affairs. Outwardly he conforms with 'zip and zowie,' is a 'big booster' before the public eye; inwardly he converges day by day upon the utter emptiness of his soul - too filled with rationalizations and sentimentality to sense his own corruption....consummate expression to the glibness and irresponsibility of the hardened, professional social climber.H.G Wells said of this novel: "I wish I could have written Babbitt"

Aventura / Drama / Ficção / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance / Suspense e Mistério