Babbitt · Character
Howard Littlefield
Babbitt's pedantic neighbor, a walking encyclopedia of statistics who can explain any subject and understand none of the people around him.
supporting
Also known as Littlefield, Dr. Howard Littlefield
First appearance: chapter i
As a supporting figure in Babbitt, Howard Littlefield is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The scholarly neighbor, a PhD and employment-manager, is admired by Babbitt for his intellect and conservative values.
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Dr. Howard Littlefield is the Floral Heights neighbor whose bottomless fund of facts makes him the neighborhood oracle and a fixture at the Babbitt dinner table. He is pompous, humorless, and utterly confident in the…
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Elite and Professional Acquaintances
- Extended Social Orbit
- Protagonist
- Babbitt's Inner Circle
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This is the story's dramatic climax because Babbitt's vague, suppressed dread about Paul crystallizes into a s…
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See Howard Littlefield in chapter i