Getting Above Your Highest Altitude
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Main Street is considered a classic because it fundamentally changed how American literature depicted small‑town life, combining sharp social satire, psychological realism, and a historically revealing portrait of early‑20th‑century America. - link2source-WIKI - It is a story set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown.
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Main Street offers an unusually detailed, satirical, and historically specific portrait of everyday life in a Midwestern small town during the 1910s, right up through World War I and the onset of Prohibition.
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NOTES: from Sinclair Lewis’s novel Main Street.
link2source - literary devices DOT net - polysyndeton - an author creates a rhythm in their writing. (pronounced pol-ee-SIN-de-ton), the deliberate and repetitive use of conjunctions, like and, but, or, nor, in a series of words or phrases.
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link2source - Carol Kennicott’s first encounters with a radical, intellectual circle in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
link2source - openlibrary DOT org - books - OL33188620M - Main Street
link2source - American Literature DOT com - author - Sinclair Lewis - book - Main Street (starting on chapter one).
link2-ARCHIVE - Main Street : The Story of Carol Kennicot (Archive)
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