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Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt :A Portrait of a Midwestern Conformist Businessman | ||
| Al-Mustansiriya Journal of Arts | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 50, 2017, Pages 1-23 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hadeel Hatif Jassam | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The aim of this research is to expose the corruption , the moral depravity and hypocrisy of the American business community during the boom years of the 1920s .It sheds light on the conformity of the middle -class society –the subject of Lewis's criticism – and its effect upon his principal character . Lewis hates the idea of conformity or homogenization . He is against all that is standardized for he feels that it abolishes humanity .He , through his novel , as Schorer says , wants "to show the world of the little businessman , and more particularly the middleman ’’ who “ abolishes his own humanity , in the culture of business | ||
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