Download or read book CliffsNotes on Lewis' Main Street written by Salibelle Royster and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-03-03 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.