A review by ronnie2024
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

4.0

Main Street is a scathing portrayal of small town life in middle America. Lewis used such a heavy hand as he tirelessly hammered his point home! At times, I despaired of ever finishing this book! I would have liked to sympathize with Carol because I would have found life in Gopher Prairie equally stultifying. However, I grew weary of her unrelenting criticism of everything and everyone (except herself) in town. In the last third, the pace picked up, and the rhetoric toned down, which made for a much more enjoyable read.