Msin Street Author:Sinclair Lewis The lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position in which America's turn-of-the-century, "emancipated woman" found herself. Carol's dilemma is intensified by the face that she lives in the small, self-satisfied, Midwestern town of Gopher Prarie. An allegory of... more » exile and return, Main Street attacks the drab complacency and ingrown mores of those who resist change, who are under the illusion that they have chosen their tradition.« less