Babbitt is a satirical approach of describing the American middle class and it's culture during the roaring 1920's. The author, Sinclair Lewis, seeks to expose the conformity and emptiness that plagues the middle class community of Zenith and all of America. He shows one man's struggle as he realizes his faults with a dull, conformed lifestyle of himself and his society.
             The town of Zenith shines with post World War I prosperity. It has a modern landscape of skyscrapers, factories and bustling automobiles and streets crowded with people. The neighborhood that George Babbitt lives in consists of orderly rows of pleasant, comfortable homes containing all the latest technology offered in modern conveniences and appliances. However, underneath this shiny gleam reveals a false, conformed lifestyle among the middle class. Zenith and its citizen's are characterized by depressing standardization all with very superficial relationships and repetitive thoughts. Lewis portrays the middle class as being motivated by social status, money and material wants.
             George Babbitt lives the typical middle class businessman lifestyle as a Realtor. The novel reveals that Babbitt realizes that he is dissatisfied and bored with his lifestyle. His house essentially is conformity to the middle class norm. It lacks the aura and personality that defines one's home. It is a home, as like everyone else's, to show off the wealth and status of the occupants with all the new and best appliances. George is obsessed with modern technology and it's function and status.
             " It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm
             clocks, with all modern attachments, including cathedral chime, intermittent
             alarm, and a phosphorescent dial. Babbitt was proud to be awakened by
             such a rich device. Socially it was almost as creditable as buying expensive
             George's materialism is...