CliffsNotes on Lewis' Main Street Author:Salibelle Royster, Sinclair Lewis in this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender ... more »roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.« less