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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: CHAPTER VIII
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THE great events of Babbitt's spring were the secret buying of real-estate
options in Linton for certain street-traction officials, before the public
announcement that the Linton Avenue Car Line would be extended, and a dinner
which was, as he rejoiced to his wife, not only "a regular society spread but
a real sure-enough highbrow affair, with some of the keenest intellects and
the brightest bunch of little women in town." It was so absorbing an occasion
that he almost forgot his desire to run off to Maine with Paul Riesling.
Though he had been born in the village of Catawba, Babbitt had risen to that
metropolitan social plane on which hosts have as many as four people at dinner
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