Babbitt | Critical Overview
In his introduction to Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis, Martin Bucco writes that the literary community reviewed Babbitt very positively and saw it as an improvement on Main Street (1920) despite the fact that: “Reviews in business and club magazines naturally remonstrated against Lewis’s bestselling raillery of a ‘standardized’ American businessman discontented amid zippy fellow Rotarians, Realtors, and Boosters.” H. L. Mencken and Rebecca West were among the most influential early critics to praise Babbitt. West wrote in the New Statesman...
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