![]() ![]() The prairie, vast and empty, stretches away on every side.ĭreams end and realism begins when Carol takes a thirty-minute walk, inspecting the town, north and south, east and west. ![]() The Kennicott family home is outdated and stuffy. ![]() Main Street has two-story brick shops flanked by Fords and lumber wagons. In the drab town are three thousand dull people, in a social strata ranging from Swede farmer to bank president. The story proper begins when, after a honeymoon in the Colorado mountains, the Kennicotts approach Gopher Prairie on the train. She is a rebel against ugliness and conformity, and one factor in her decision to accept Kennicott is the opportunity to make over a planless middle west prairie town. Paul (Minnesota) for three years before her marriage to Dr. Consequently the narrative presents a series of episodes rather than a tightly constructed plot.Ĭarol Milford Kennicott, a graduate of "sanctimonious" Blodgett College, with a year of additional study in a Chicago library school, works as a librarian in St. In writing Main Street, Sinclair Lewis paid little attention to formal plot development. ![]()
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That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. ** I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. ![]() ![]() Most nice girls believe that by repressing the darker side of their feminine energy they will win the approval of dudes. ![]() This seems logical considering the anti-male climate that has permeated our culture since the 1960s." "Most Nice Guys believe that by repressing the darker side of their masculine energy they will win the approval of women. ![]() ![]() Which yes, is a solution this book works toward but the author doesn't seem to have a whole lot of awareness of how women are raised and how THAT effects men, and how that leads to women raising boys as if they're women. 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