MAIN STREET

By Sinclair Lewis

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

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.