... but they answer the problems in an unexpected way. In Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and in Henry David Thoreau's Walden, independence plays a key role in the main characters' lives. In Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, Babbitt takes vacations to escape the hectic world of his life. In his normal life he finds himself no longer content ... to impose what they believe to be right. "His vote,"" Thoreau suggests, "is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought."" This again emphasizes Thoreau's belief that an individual's vote is in vain, and serv...

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