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I really enjoyed Babbitt about a character who starts out as a middle-class real estate agent who has his brief moment of glory before being humbled by life, and passing through a phase of empathy with the working class, regains his position in the hierarchy. It is well-written and interesting as a portrayal of the midwestern American bourgeois at the turn of the century and just after WWI. It was more or less this book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, well-deserved I believe. Very readable, it proposes an archetype that, although somewhat forgotten today, described the average salesman personality of passive machismo and alcoholism.