First published in 1920, Main Street is a biting and satirical look at small town America.
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Main Street exemplifies Lewis\' vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters, which was cited by the Nobel Prize for Literature committee when he was awarded the prize in 1930.
For all its seeming bleakness, Carol is ever optimistic and refuses to give up or believe the fight isn\'t worth fighting.
Her ideas are not received as she hoped and instead she is resisted at every turn and derided by her fellow townsfolk.
Brimming with optimism and tenacity, she sets out to convince the town to modernize and embrace her progressive values.
Carol is disappointed by the town\'s drab appearance and it\'s provincial, small-minded inhabitants.
Carol agrees and they move to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a town modeled on Sinclair\'s own hometown of Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Carol, a young and progressive librarian living in St Paul, Minnesota, falls in love with and marries Will Kennicott, a doctor who dreams of returning to the small town of his childhood.
Set in the 1910s it follows the struggles of its heroine, Carol Milford, to adapt to small town life.
First published in 1920, Main Street is a biting and satirical look at small town America
