Main Street | Characters
Carol Kennicott is the protagonist of Main Street, and she is the one who undergoes the most bitter disillusionment as she compares her beliefs with facts. An outsider and former librarian, Carol goes to Gopher Prairie to marry Will Kennicott, a physician. As Carol begins her adventure, she sees that moving into the small town can be an opportunity for her to bring culture and enlightenment to a backward village, but she never imagined what the reality would be: dirt, squalor, ugliness, meaningless rituals, pettiness, narrow-mindedness, prejudices and biases (hidden under an overt...
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