Main Street Sinclair Lewis was a queer boy, always an outsider, lonely. Once he had become famous, he began to promulgate an official view of his youth that represents perhaps an adult wish for a inoffensive life that never was. He was Sinclair Lewis (Hutchisson 8). In the years from 1914 to 1951 Sinclair Lewis, a flamboyant, driven, self-devouring genius from Sauk Centre, Minnesota, aspired in twenty two novels to make all America his province. (Hutchisson 9). Although his …showed first 75 words of 2909 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2909 total…accepted by the town. Carol feels that she may not have won the battle against mediocrity but that she has at least kept fighting (Maglin 112). The long, episodic, and almost plotless story of Carol Kennicott and her struggles with Gopher Prairie finally ends without solving many of her problems, but through the novel, Lewis satirizes the lives of small town people and their fight to conform and not let anyone change their morals or values.