Main Street (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Values, Social reform, Tradition, Midwest, Doctors, Manners or customs, 1910’s, Small-town life, Idealism, Conformity, Gossip
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Washington, D.C., Midwest (U.S.), Minneapolis, MN
Carol Milford, an attractive, eager librarian, marries Dr. Will Kennicott and comes to Gopher Prairie with every expectation of seeing the town through her husband's eyes. Will, a character based to a great extent on the novelist's father and brother Claude, both country doctors, is proud of Gopher Prairie and does not see clearly the faults which become so apparent to Carol almost at once. Carol Kennicott would like to change everything, from the dull buildings that line Main Street to the people who inhabit the houses, people whose interests in life are very narrow indeed. Will's...
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