Sinclair Lewis's Main Street: A Reverse Portrait to the American Myth

Abstract

The American novelist, Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota on the seventh of February in 1885. He was the third son of a country physician, Edwin J. Lewis, and had two brothers, Fred (born in 1875) and Claude(born in 1878). His mother, Emma Kermott Lewis died in 1891. His father, a year later, remarried another woman named Isabel Warner whom he considered to be his own mother. His boyhood life was full of problems. He suffered from loneliness in his provincial small Midwestern town which he yearned to escape.