The two most important books by Sinclair were Main Street and Babbit. Babbit was about an ordinary businessmen who becomes tired of his conformity and becomes more liberal. He takes on a mistress and begins to "hang" with the drinking crowd, despite prohibition laws. However, he returns to normalcy when his wife becomes ill. This showed that it was easy to get mixed up in the "uncouth" movement during the twenties. Main Street was about a small town dealing with the new aggressive capitalism during the twenties. This book showed the evil of materialism as a small town forgets old values. Sinclair did not approve of the new liberalism, and was a backlash to the new society created during the twenties.
