National university of uzbekistan named after mirzo ulugbek faculty of foreign philology

• NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF UZBEKISTAN NAMED AFTER
• MIRZO ULUGBEK
• FACULTY OF FOREIGN PHILOLOGY
• DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY
• THEME : NOBEL PRIZE AMERICAN WRITERS
• Group: 406
• Done by: Ubaydulloyeva D.
• Checked by: Fayziyeva M. S
• Tachkent – 2021

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis

• Sinclair Lewis was the first American author to win a Nobel Prize for literature when he did so in 1930. In Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and other works, he mercilessly savaged the values and mindset of “Middle America,” much as H.L. Mencken and other intellectuals were also doing at the time.
• How does George F. Babbitt describe the ideal citizen of Zenith, and does this description seem to echo anyone else we’ve read?
• Why does Babbitt feel that America is superior to “the decayed nations of Europe?”
• What does he think is a major problem with many of America's major cities?
• How is Zenith and the rest of Middle America “great, but what is a potential problem that exists in the heartland itself?
• According to Babbitt, what is the ideal of American manhood and culture as exemplified by the upstanding citizens of Zenith?
• What is your opinion of Babbitt?