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Men and Masculinity
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 happy with having a nice house and a lot of money.
But Babbitt tends to hang out with men who are so afraid of being seen as feminine that they spend most of their time constantly reassuring themselves of their masculinity. Without doubt, masculinity and self-worth often seem like the same thing for men in the world of Babbitt.
In Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis shows us that the pressures of being "manly" are actually responsible for making a lot of men feel totally miserable.
In Babbitt, we find that George Babbitt and the men around him are always at their happiest when they feel "manly."
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