![]() ![]() His characters, still full of nostalgia for the excitement of the frontier, persuade themselves that what they have at the present represents the zenith, the summit of human potential. Lewis exposed a United States dominated by business and petty bourgeois mentality. The five novels that made him famous, Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth, can be read as a series of variations on the same theme. If his characters sometimes behave as romantic rebels, so did Lewis, rebelling against a philistine lifestyle in which he was deeply rooted and to which he remained attached all his life. He failed to solve the dichotomy in his novels, nor did he ever solve it for himself. ![]() Early reviews praised or condemned Sinclair Lewis (Febru– January 10, 1951) for a blend of realism and optimism indeed, a curious mixture of almost naturalistic realism and a kind of romance characterized Lewis’s fiction throughout his career. ![]()
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