MAIN STREET
About this book
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
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- businessmen
- businesspeople
- city and town life
- city and town life -- fiction
- classic literature
- classics
- conformity
- domestic fiction
- fiction
- married people, fiction
- married women
- married women -- fiction
- middle aged men
- middle-aged men
- minnesota -- fiction
- minnesota, fiction
- physicians, fiction
- physicians' spouses
- physicians' spouses -- fiction
- physicians's spouses
- satire
- women college graduates
- women college graduates -- fiction