Main Street

Description:

The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This groundbreaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for individuality.

subjects: Fiction,  Married women,  City and town life,  Physicians' spouses,  Women college graduates,  Satire,  Domestic fiction,  Physicians's spouses,  Businessmen,  Middle-aged men,  Conformity,  Classic Literature,  Middle aged men,  Businesspeople,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Minnesota, fiction,  Married people, fiction,  Physicians, fiction,  Classics,  City and town life -- Fiction,  Married women -- Fiction,  Minnesota -- Fiction,  Physicians' spouses -- Fiction,  Women college graduates -- Fiction

Places: Minnesota