Sinclair Lewis
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
First American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The town where the story takes place?
Gopher Prairie
What is 1930?
The year Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Carol moves to this town after doing this?
After marrying Will Kennicott
What is Minnesota?
The American state where Sinclair Lewis was born.
Major problems Carol finds in the town?
boredom / gossip / conservatism
The type of society Sinclair Lewis often criticized in his novels?
American society / materialism / hypocrisy
What Carol wants to improve in the town?
culture and society
Two other famous novels written by Sinclair Lewis besides Main Street?
Babbitt and Arrowsmith
The main conflict of the novel?
What is Carol’s struggle against traditional society?