... minimum of food and still live a healthy life. In contrast, George F. Babbitt lives upon the same luxuries of food that Thoreau has denounced as unnecessary. Because of his persistence to ascend up the social ladder, he can only eat the finest and most refined delicacies. Lewis looks to satire the American upper-class society's tendency to eat the best of foods ... ...

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