![]() ![]() Sinclair Lewiss critical reputation could not easily be lower than it is at. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Diagnostic Novel: Main Street and Babbitt. By Sinclair Lewis, John Hersey, ISBN: 9780940450615, Hardcover. The novel follows beautiful young Carol Kennicott who comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture, but instead runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. He became an important literary figure with the publication of Main Street, the first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life. Lewis began his career as a journalist, editor, and hack writer. Although he ridiculed the values, the lifestyles, and even the speech of his characters, there is often affection behind the irony. In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and. ![]() Carol Kennicott is the protagonist of Main Street, and she is the one who undergoes the most bitter disillusionment. Possibly the greatest satirist of his age, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. Last Updated on May 7, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. ![]() ![]() Lewis, was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Illustrated with scenes from the Photoplay, a Warner Brothers screen classic. ![]()
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