The Comparison of “Main Street” and “Babbitt” by the One and Only Sinclair Lewis
Many readers have tried to figure out the different styles of writing of Sinclair Lewis. He is a very unique writer, and he has been through many obstacles to get to where he was as a famous author. Sinclair Lewis was born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He was raised with a good family, and never had trouble in school. Sinclair was always a multitasker; he could do many things at once and one of the things was definitely reading. While Sinclair was in college he worked as a news reporter for a newspaper, and he also pursued with the job after he graduated from Yale University. While he was working as a news reporter he also wrote his very first novel, which
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The little information about Sinclair is nothing compared to the journey of him becoming a famous author.
Sinclair Lewis has had many amazing books out, but I picked his top two novels that he ever wrote. “Main Street” was the second novel that he wrote but the first one that was very famous. After “Main Street” became such a big hit; Lewis decided to write the novel “Babbitt” which was another one of his top sellers. Sinclair Lewis drew back to his childhood memories to
Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal complacency and comfort of the middle class in America. In the novel “Main Street” Lewis’ idealistic heroine, Carol Kennicott, that longs to get her hands on a town and make it beautiful, but when her doctor husband brings her to Gopher Prairie, she finds that the romance of the American dream was to the drab reality of the American Middle
East. In the novel “Babbitt” Lewis uses a man and gives all types of personalities from being a businessman, to also be a Christian. He’s basically putting all of America’s categories into one big subject.
“It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.”
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Saying that everything is perfect and that they are better off the others. It’s not true, because most people got by in that period of time in the pats. Those people may of not had much to get by wit, but they still managed it.
“And after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless.” This quote from “Babbitt” tells us how Babbitt has lost someone that is very important in his life. Babbitt did not realize it at the time when his friend had left. When he returned back to the office he finally realized that he can’t take on the world with his friend. What’s the point of moving on when you do not have someone special there to help you take on life.
The novels “Main Street” and “Babbitt” are very unique novels that any author could of ever written. Sinclair Lewis did an amazing job showing all the characteristics out of the characters in the two novels. How in “Main Street” he uses the characters in many different ways by making them different in all the classifications of life in America. “Babbitt” shows all the characteristics out of basically America into one character throughout the whole book.