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What Is The Privilege Of Living In Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt?

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The book, Babbitt (1922), written by Sinclair Lewis, is regarded as one of the greatest pieces of American literature today. It tells the tale of a 46 year old businessman named George F. Babbitt. George Babbitt and his family live in a modern Midwestern fictional city named Zenith. Here, the Babbitt family enjoys all the luxuries of life any American middle class family can attain in the 1920s. Though George and his family are doing well, George often finds that he is not happy. He realizes that the privilege of living a successful middle class life is not fulfilling enough to him. Therefore, he attempts to finds some sort of gratification in his world. At the same time he struggles to deal with the status quo that was very prominent in the
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