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Published two years after Lewis's previous novel (Main Street, 1920), the story of George F. Babbitt was much anticipated because each novel presented a portrait of American society wherein “the principal character is brought into conflict with the accepted order of things, sufficiently to illustrate its ruthlessness.” Social change
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Main Street. Main Street: Novel Summary. Summary Chapter 1 Carol Milford, a student at Blodgett College in Minneapolis, walks to a hill overlooking the Mississippi River. The narrator uses the opportunity to observe that the spirit of rebellious youth locked inside this girl is all that remains of the pioneers that once ventured across the prairie.
About Main Street. The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life.
The novel's main protagonist, from whose point of view nearly the entire story is told. Intelligent and vivacious, Carol Milford attends college in Minneapolis and then works as a librarian in St. Paul for three years before marrying Dr. Will Kennicott and moving to Gopher Prairie.
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The great romantic satire of its decade, Main Street is a wry, sad, funny account of a woman who attempts to challenge the hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness of her community. “I know of no American novel that more accurately presents the real America,” wrote H.L. Mencken when Babbitt appeared in 1922.
