George F. Babbitt is the main character in Lewis’s novel and he was a man that epitomized the materialism and mediocrity of the American middle class. The Babbitts’ lived in the neat, uniform community of Floral Heights with a comfortable home that was full of all of the most modern appliances and conveniences. Due to Babbitt’s flourishing real estate business, he was able to afford a car, “the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all the modern attachments”, an electric toaster, an electric percolator and countless other expensive, up to date conveniences. Babbitt was a man obsessed with things and though he realized that this was unfulfilling, he was not

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