Sinclair Lewis, the author of Babbitt, devised several key literary elements
to explain his full effect and purpose for writing his novel. Babbitt is a
satirist look at not only one man, but an entire society as well. He exposes
the hypocrisy and mechanization of American Society in the 1920's. In the
novel Lewis focuses on his main character Babbitt, the protagonist throughout
much of the book, who is a businessman with lofty aims and a desire to climb
the ladder of the social class. To fully achieve his opinions and beliefs,
Lewis used the literary effects of irony and theme.