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Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.267811dc.contributor.author: Sinclair Lewisdc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-27T20:08:49Zdc.date.available:...
Main Street Full Book Summary. Carol Milford attends Blodgett College in Minneapolis and dreams about settling down in a prairie village and transforming it into a place of beauty. After graduation, she works as a librarian at St. Paul for three years. She meets Dr.
Main Street (1920) is a story about Carol Milford, who is convinced by her new husband, Dr. Will Kennicott, to leave the city life to which she is accustomed. They relocate to his hometown of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, where she is taken aback by the little town's backward ways and ugly appearance. She soon sets about to "improve" it.
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.
24 de sept. de 2020 · Main Street never quite delivers a rallying cry to women relegated to unfulfilling lives as housewives. Stylistically, Lewis was not a “pitchfork in the air” kind of social realist. Characters dissatisfied with small-town life simply endure, and so does Carol Kennicott, who, by the end of the novel, has had another child: a daughter.
Before the publication of Main Street, many Americans still viewed the small town idealistically, the last bastion of good people and traditional American morals and values in the midst of a changing and somewhat frightening modern world. In this novel, however, Lewis exposes this myth of the goodness of small town-life as a falsehood.
Main Street is a children's novel series by Ann M. Martin aiming at age group 8–12. It was published between 2007 and 2011. [1] The story revolves around two sisters, Ruby and Flora Northrop, who move to the small town Camden Falls to live with their grandmother after the sudden death of their parents. The books tell us about the girls' new ...