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- Sales Rank: #8532288 in Books
- Published on: 1998-06-01
- Original language: English
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This classic by Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire. "Main Street attacks the conformity and dullness of early 20th Century midwestern village life in the story of Carol Milford, the city girl who marries the town doctor. Her efforts to bring culture to the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, and petty small-minded bigotry. Lewis's complex and compelling work established him as an important character in American literature.
About the Author
Nobel Prize-winning writer Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) is best known for novels like Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith (for which he was awarded but declined the Pulitzer Prize), and Elmer Gantry. A writer from his youth, Lewis wrote for and edited the Yale Literary Magazine while a student, and started his literary career writing popular stories for magazines and selling plots to other writers like Jack London. Lewis s talent for description and creating unique characters won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, making him the first American writer to win the prestigious award. Considered to be one of the greats of American literature, Lewis was honoured with a Great Americans series postage stamp, and his work has been adapted for both stage and screen.
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From Brooke Allen’s Introduction to Main Street
Main Street is very, very American, but it is not purely American. Shaw, in his characteristically flippant manner, spoke the truth when he said that Lewis’s criticisms applied to other nations as well, but that Americans clung to the idea that they were unique in their faults (Literary Digest, December 6, 1930); the British novelist John Galsworthy remarked, truly, that “Every country, of course, has its Main Streets” (Lewis, From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis, 1919–1930). Still, a disdain for intellect (or for what we nowadays prefer to denigrate as elitism) has been particularly marked in America, perhaps because of our commitment, stated if not practiced, to egalitarian democracy: On Main Street, Lewis writes, “to be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”
More than eighty years after Lewis’s novel this is true, and it is true not only on Main Street but on Wall Street as well, and on Park Avenue, and on Pennsylvania Avenue. This is what makes Main Street such a stunning achievement: While it succeeds in being “contemporary history,” capturing a particular place at a particular moment in time, it also speaks for our own time; it is remarkable how much of Main Street is still pertinent. Gopher Prairie at war is not so very unlike our own flag-waving “war on terrorism.” Will Kennicott’s breezy dismissal of legal procedure—“Whenever it comes right down to a question of defending Americanism and our constitutional rights, it’s justifiable to set aside ordinary procedure”—can be read on almost any editorial page today. Gopher Prairie’s commercial ethos of material “progress” at the expense of every other variety, an idea Lewis would expand and crystallize in Babbitt, has been refined rather than improved in our own era of no-collar workers who meditate or practice yoga before closing the Big Deal rather than smoking cigars and guzzling alcohol.
Lewis, unlike so many of his contemporaries, was never tempted to look for an answer in political dogma: He hated dictatorships and had no particular faith in the virtue or good judgment of “the people.” All he really believed in was the wavering, imperfect liberal spirit: “Even if Com[munism] & Fax[cism] or both cover the world, Liberal[ism] must go on, seeming futile, preserving civilization,” he wrote in his notes for It Can’t Happen Here (quoted in Lingeman).
An atheist with no political illusions, two failed marriages, an unconquerable addiction to alcohol, and a moribund talent might be thought to have had every reason to give up in despair. Lewis, to his undying credit, did not. “It is a completely revelatory American tragedy,” he said in his Nobel Prize speech, “that in our land of freedom, men like [Hamlin] Garland, who first blast the roads to freedom, become themselves the most bound.” This has been true of many; it was never true of Lewis. Like Carol Kennicott, he was still reaching—though generally failing to grasp—right up to the end. His particular type of sociological fiction had gone out of fashion at the time of his death, and he continued to be undervalued for decades afterward. But in recent years we have returned to an appreciation for what he accomplished artistically. For what he was able to tell us about American life, in his day and in ours, we can only be grateful.
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Still Relevant Classic
By Zipporah
Rereading this classic after many years has shown me how relevant this story still is though the narrow minded and fearful small town people live in all kinds of places now, but even after all these years Lewis" description of the kind of thinking that leads to extreme fear and conservatism is totally relevant. Worth reading if you have come up against small minded and bigoted people. Lewis description of their mental processes is very insightful. In addition it is just a good story and a well written classic novel. Be sure to get an unabridged edition. I noticed the ones on Kindle had different numbers of pages....from over 200 pages to over 400 pages. I got the longest version thinking it would be the most accurate to the original and though I have no basis for comparison, I believe it is the entire original version. Very interesting and entertaining classic with a strong intellect behind it. Lewis holds up well.
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Gopher Prairie Absorbs the irritating Carol Kennicott
By T. Patrick Killough
By 1880 fictional Gopher Prairie was no longer a raw, Minnesota frontier community. After the Civil War its social equilibrium was provided by an older aristocracy of stern Puritan immigrants from New England: four men of respected professions, "medicine, law, religion, and finance." But by 1910 or thereabouts, the Gopher Prairie of Sinciair Lewis's 1920 novel MAIN STREET (and the surrounding countryside which ithe town was meant to serve) had become an ethnic melting pot and mere merchants and land speculators were growing rich and challenging old standards of social respectability.
Lewis's MAIN STREET is about a newly volatile mix of small-town people groping toward a constructive social equilibrium for Gopher Prairie. Their search is best illustrated in four characters: Carol Milford Kennicott, her schoolteacher friend and critic Vida Sherwin Wutherspoon, Carol's husband Dr Will Kennicott and his best friend and social inferior, merchant Sam Clark.
Melting-pot Gopher Prairie is severely challenged by its latest arrival, idealistic, impatient, impractical Carol Kennicott (nee Milford). All its "denizens" (Carol's word) seem called to resist her pretense to be an insistent sun of the Minnesota prairies cultural solar system. She wills Gopher Prairie to become as beautiful and refined as Mankato, Minnesota where she grew up. She exhorts individuals and organizations to achieve her vision of an Athens of the Prairies. Carol puts on a play. She befriends social misfits. She by turns enchants and baffles her steady, plodding husband, Will Kennicott, M.D. She imagines her town infected by a Village Virus which spreads mediocrity. Slowly, however, impulsive, idealistic Carol accepts the importance of timing in the art of reform and is tamed downward to a feasible level of action. Vida Sherwin proves the wisdom of settling for just one new school if and when transformation of the entire town becomes too much. Gopher Prairie is thus made hospitable to both a wiser, priority-setting Carol and to Vida, as once long ago Biblical Bethany had worked for Jesus's friends, the very different sisters Mary and Martha.
Venerable survivors of Gopher Prairie's old New England transplanted aristocracy accept the professional credentials of Will Kennicott and the town's other doctors. But they remain conditioned to regard Will's best friend Sam Clark and other merchants as undignified social upstarts. Why does Dr Kennicott hunt ducks and play bridge with the likes of Clark, self-described "dealer in hardware, sporting goods, cream separators and almost every kind of heavy junk you can think of" (Ch. III)? And why does Kennicott decline to go lower socially? Why, for instance, shoot ducks with his tailor, but not with his barber?
Will Kennicott is a good-hearted, tunnel-visioned, work absorbed "plugger." Will and Sam are as close as David and Jonathan. It is Sam who drives the newly weds from the train station to their home in his pre World War One automobile. Sam Clark and his wife are the first denizens to entertain the Kennicotts at home. Indeed, the unimpressive Clark house is ever before Dr Kennicott's imagination as the model for his own future dream home. Carol resents tobacco-spitting Sam and other poker-playing friends of Will and perhaps subconsciously blames Sam for making her professional-level husband feel comfortable bathing only once a week, shaving thrice, not shining his shoes and letting his clothes become rumpled. Neither Sam nor Will is a big reader, though they admire one-time St Paul librarian Carol for her bibliophilia.
Towards novel's end Carol has made it clear to her husband that: "You have a right to me if you can keep me. Can you?" (Ch. XXXVI). Will then makes a quiet effort to improve himself and wins her back. For his part, faithful Sam keeps on accepting his friend's judgmental, demanding wife. A new equilibrium is created in Gopher Prairie. But Carol Kennicott foresees for her baby daughter a new world as far into the future as the year 2000. "She may see aeroplanes going to Mars." She will meanwhile be "a bomb to blow up smugness" (Ch. XXXIX). But for the moment the "Tories" of Gopher Prairie settle gratefully for a calmer Carol and resume straightening their collars, hanging their storm-windows and looking for misplaced screwdrivers.
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Gest Literature but not a Fun Read!
By Ping Bull
A great classic that is hard to read and even harder to finish. I didn't enjoy this book nor do I think that most people will. But it stays with you after it's finished unfortunately. It's easy to understand why Sinclair Lewis had such a bad end.
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