Main Street | Techniques
Very few critics or literary scholars praise Lewis for the aesthetics of his work. It makes some sense to think of Lewis more as a social commentator than as a literary artist of the first rank. Too often Lewis wrote rapidly and carelessly; he tended toward cloying melodrama and gross overstatement. But mixed with his literary lapses are many excellent passages, and no American writer captured as effectively as Lewis did the nuances of the language or the personality of a particular American type.
Many critics have described Lewis as having two sides: the ironic and satiric, which...
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