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by Sinclair Lewis
First Published
2009
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
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.