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 The Kennicott family home is outdated and stuffy.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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