{"id":30764,"count":1,"description":"Babbitt, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure on individuals toward conformity.\nAs is indicated in many editions of the book, the working title of Babbitt was Pumphrey.\nThe book takes its name from the principal character, George F. Babbitt, a middle-aged partner, with his father-in-law, in a real-estate firm. When the story begins, in April 1920, Babbitt is 46 years old. He has a wife, Myra; three children (Verona, 22; Ted, 17; and Tinka, 10); and a well-appointed house in the prosperous Floral Heights neighborhood of \u201cZenith,\u201d a fictitious city in the equally fictitious state of \u201cWinnemac,\u201d which is adjacent to Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. (Babbitt does not mention Winnemac by name, but Lewis's later novel Arrowsmith elaborates on its location.) When Babbitt was published, newspapers in Cincinnati; Duluth; Kansas City; Milwaukee; and...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/babbitt\/","name":"Babbitt","slug":"babbitt","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/30764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=30764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}