Main Street
Carol Kennicott marries a small-town doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, hoping that her idealistic belief in social reform can be realized. Instead, she observes firsthand the stifling realities of small town life--cultural narrowness, smugness, petty cruelties--and finds that her marriage can`t survive what she learns. Sinclair Lewis`s best-selling 1920 novel was controversial in its time because of its gritty refusal to romanticize small-town life--one of America`s fondest myths.

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