Bitget

Author: Sinclair Lewis
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: A powerful work by a Nobel Prize-winning author in the United States interpreting the commercial culture. Babbitt is a novel that reflects the lives of urban merchants during the prosperous period of American commercial culture. This novel is worth reading and worth studying because it not only creates a typical merchant character, "Babbitt," but also humorously portrays the various aspects of American commercial culture of the 1920s, offering both cultural reflection and artistic appreciation. Babbitt is a successful real estate businessman, living a wealthy yet monotonous middle-class life. However, as a person, he is struck by emptiness and thus tries to seek a "truly meaningful life." For this, he embarks on travels, tries a cynical lifestyle, and even becomes infected with revolutionary sentiments. But Babbitt lacks the courage to endure the subsequent social ostracism, so he reverts to embracing family life and his merchant career. By the end of the novel, Babbitt places his hopes in his son.