Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. He now holds the unique distinction of being the first American awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Lewis was later awarded the Pulitzer prize for his 1925 novel Arrowsmith, but rejected the award in 1926. Main Street was originally awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but the award was later rejected by the Board of Trustees. The story takes place during the 1910's and includes various cultural references including World War I and the start of Prohibition. Some believe the novel foreshadows popular ideals and attitudes of the roaring 20's, though the novel's release preceded its arrival in America. The novel's setting in Gopher Prarie, Minnesota is modeled after Sinclair's own upbringing in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The satirical novel criticizes the small-town lifestyle, classing it amongst Lewis' contemporaries as somewhat bleak in nature. The reception amongst real-life small-town residents was similarly unfavorable the novel was banned by a public library in Alexandria, Minnesota in 1921 for its portrayal of the mundane emptiness of life in a small town. Main Street is a novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1920. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Main Street is the Lewis novel best known in the author's birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, for in spite of its satire, it reflects the true nature of the town and its inhabitants.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Lewis Mumford maintains that Carol Kennicott's struggle with the stodgy, self-satisfied society of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere, since the same story could occur in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas, Kentucky, or Illinois. It is well written, full of a sharp sense of comedy, and rich in observation and completely designed. genuinely human but also authentically American. Connected also with the decline of the American village was the exodus to the cities of many of its brighter and more aggressive young people, in search of more attractive living conditions and better work opportunities. Lewis gives little recognition to the forces contributing to small-town deterioration, notably the advent of the automobile as a common means of transportation and the consequent increase of city buying at the expense of local trade. The book satirizes the ugliness and conformity found in small Midwest towns during the second decade of the twentieth century and ridicules the uninspired and self-satisfied inhabitants. Main Street became a household word, both in the United States and abroad, within a few years after the publication of Sinclair Lewis' widely read novel.
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