revolution, guild socialism, free verse. She had fancied that all the
In Gopher Prairie the only new topics were
prohibition, the place in Minneapolis where you could
get whisky ... the "high cost of living," the
Carol's world, like her personal circumstances and predicament, are familiar to us. Since Main Street was published, its title has provided the American language with a stock term. We speak of the effect of government policies or financial moves on Main Street, using it to stand for Middle America.
Yet, curiously enough, the world of Main Street, the world of Gopher Prairie, was ceasing to be typical of the actual America at just about the time tha
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