Main Street | Social Concerns/Themes
The American people's vision of the small town as a version of Eden persisted throughout the Industrial Revolution and, indeed, continues into the second half of the twentieth century. At their most romantic and sentimental, American people often try to call to mind a time when citizens were hard working and honest, friendly and helpful, energetic and devoted to the concepts of freedom and democracy, when Americans were altruistic and nonmercenary. In Main Street, Lewis dissected a small town that was both microcosmic and macrocosmic and showed its people to be in actual fact...
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