Babbitt (Bantam Classics)

I like Babbitt better than I thought. It was not easy at first as the reader was thrown into the fictional zenith city in the early 20th century American business environment. There is not much plot, but it is like a novel including George Babbitt. He seemed to be filled with the pursuit of 1% who seems to be vibrant at first. In most of the books, he talks about all the right things about the various local community clubs, as well as the political activities of crushing the union and rewarding those who recombined the country after the First World War I will. He gained the reputation of the eloquent, and his real estate business prospered. But under him he is still keen to slide down with a fairy tale of his dream, even if he becomes the leader of "boost" during his power.

"He was one of the strangers who laughed at him, he slid down and ran along the path of the midnight garden at the door, a fairytale kid was waiting for her lovely hands to calm down on his cheeks A brave and clever, dear, warm ivory is her hug, a brave sea shining across the dangerous wilderness. "

After a miserable change in his friend's life, Babbitt treasoned for a while, looking for fairy tales among the women he knew. He recalled the view of the more free youth and began to see his rebellious son in another way.

In 1930, Lewis received the first American Nobel Prize who received this honor. He wrote very well and I thought it was what Updike was going to do, but the success rate was lower. Babbitt is a satire against American commercialism and superficial optimism, but this book also has a heart. "Babbit" becomes a word of our vocabulary and is defined as "a person, in particular a business or an expert who satisfies the popular middle class standards without thinking". For me this definition is unfair. Because George Babbitt is not a meditative old timer, he is anxious to escape with a child with a fairy tale, but he says "pep" to try to fully utilize the hand he saw I will use it firmly. Four-star reading.

Babbitt has been converted to movies twice, and Turner classic movies are described as "impressive novels with little intrigue". The first adaptation was a silent movie released in 1924 and Willard Rui starred as George Babbitt. According to the record of Warner Bros., its cost is $ 123,000, domestic is $ 278,000, foreign is $ 28,000, totaling 306,000 dollars.

Babbit, 1922: General strike. During the period of suspicious and red division of the red panic, those who defended the Union endangered the risk of being eliminated as "non-radical" or "extremist". This is what happened to Sinclair Lewis' classic 'Babbit' middle-west middle class businessman George Babbitt. Two Militant Camps "In order to determine his political position, Babbit himself is caught between his newly adopted liberal opinion and a clear criticism of his colleague by a striker I noticed. In this chapter Lewis caught Americans and their spirit. And many people made it "reject any friends who do not hate enemies." (Page 5)

George Babbitt: In the image of the Presbyterian church in Babbitt of Sinclair Lewis, religion was explained as a corrupt business. In fact, he emphasized this by focusing on the main character George Babbitt. George Babbitt is a businessman of Zenith. Before the major leaders of the town where he lives, he is a person who focuses on his reputation and image. Lewis created a hypocritical character for Babbit by his reason of being an elderly faction. If he asks you about Babbitt about his religious beliefs, he would say, he will say: "My religion serves my citizens, respects my brothers, and It is to do my best for me.199)) Of course,

In American literature and popular culture, George Babbit's character and behavior become a negative prototype of people and personality, Babbit is "materialism and satisfying businessman satisfying his standards", Babbit is "Babbit It is. The Philistines act. "Babbitt has been converted twice to movies, and Turner classic movies are described as" impressive novels with little intrigue ". The first adaptation was a silent movie released in 1924 and Willard Rui starred as George Babbitt. According to the record of Warner Bros., its cost is $ 123,000, domestic is $ 278,000, foreign is $ 28,000, totaling 306,000 dollars.