Babbitt Themes

Okay, so Babbitt isn't the best family man… but he's a family man nonetheless. Sinclair Lewis takes every opportunity he can to reveal Babbitt's character to us through his relationship with his...

Babbitt is proud to think of himself as a dude with lots of buddy-bud-buds. What he doesn't realize until later in Babbitt, though, is that these people will only be his friends as long as he holds...

Frank Sinatra, your grandpa's favorite blue-eyed crooner, would have us believe that love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. But for Georgie Babbitt, love and marriage go together...

If you handed Babbitt's protagonist a survey asking him how satisfied he is with his life, you might get a complicated answer. For starters, his answer might depend on what mood you caught him in....

For a book set during the Prohibition era in American history, you might not expect Babbitt to have so much boozing in it. But if anything, the criminalization of alcohol only seems to make people...

George F. Babbitt likes to think of himself as a manly man… and that's exactly why he's insecure about the dissatisfaction he feels toward his life. A real man, he thinks, would be perfectly happ...

It's clear from George Babbitt's insecurities that masculinity is a big concern in Babbitt. But as large a theme as masculinity is, the concept of femininity is just as important. After all, if you...

Of all the themes we explore in Babbitt, Society and Class might be the most central to this book's plot. George Babbitt, plain and simple, wants to feel like a high society big shot. There is hard...