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His wife calls them “strange people” and reminds him that he also used to call them so (317). Nonetheless, Babbitt goes astray from his home and family engrossing himself in the Bohemian life, staying in bohemians’ houses, associating with people whose life is “dominated by suburban bacchanalia of alcohol” (292). Continue reading “In Babbitt, The Doppelbrauers and other bohemians influence Babbitt strongly and unfavorably: he always returns home late and drunk (294)”