The main character, Carol Milford, is a liberal and free-spirited woman who marries Will Kennicott and together they move back to Will’s mone-town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Upon arriving to Gopher Prairie, Carol is appalled at the lack of interest in social and cultural issues and the general backwardness of its people. Most of the townswomen gossip and watch Carol’s every move, criticizing her for being different. Carol tries to reform the town by educating the townspeople about progressive ways, creating women’s clubs, refurbishing the school and library, and helping the poor and needy.
Despite her friendly efforts, Carol is shunned by the town’s leading cliques. Carol, however, finds companionship from the outcasts of the town and those …show more content…
Lewis uses a third person point of view to describe the story and uses a photographic style of writing. What is unique about his style is that he uses a lot of descriptive passages to fully expand on each event in the story or each of the character’s thoughts. However, in the descriptive passages, Lewis uses lots of outside details that make it hard to follow the main plot line.
“A small wooden motion-picture theater called "The Rosebud Movie Palace." Lithographs announcing a film called "In Love." Howland & Gould's Grocery. In the display window, black, overripe bananas and lettuce on which a cat was sleeping... Shelves lined with red crepe paper, which was now faded and torn and concentrically spotted…Dahl & Oleson's Meat Market—a reek of blood. A jewelry shop with tinny-looking wristwatches for women.” (Lewis …show more content…
He uses lists and descriptive images like the black and overripe banana and the reek of blood from the meat market to realistically evoke the disgust Carol has for the town. While his objective-Gopher Prairie is a backwards town-is directly stated in the text, it is placed around numerous details that take away from the direct message from the text. Lewis mentions the movie “In Love” and Howland & Gould's Grocery in between the imagery that leads us to his objective. He does this to show the irony in Carol’s view. She only see’s the ominous metaphors like the black banana and the reek of blood while Will see’s a normal town with a normal movie playing. Only Carol is able to see the signs of a backwards town.
C. This quote takes place after the townswomen have mocked her for her progressive ideas and no one accepts her.
She was startled by the return of her father, startled by a sudden conviction that in this flaxen boy she had found the gray reticent judge who was divine love, perfect understanding. She thought about it, cried about it, reaffirmed it, ridiculed it. Of one thing she was unhappily certain: there was nothing of the beloved father image in Will
Despite her friendly efforts, Carol is shunned by the town’s leading cliques. Carol, however, finds companionship from the outcasts of the town and those …show more content…
Lewis uses a third person point of view to describe the story and uses a photographic style of writing. What is unique about his style is that he uses a lot of descriptive passages to fully expand on each event in the story or each of the character’s thoughts. However, in the descriptive passages, Lewis uses lots of outside details that make it hard to follow the main plot line.
“A small wooden motion-picture theater called "The Rosebud Movie Palace." Lithographs announcing a film called "In Love." Howland & Gould's Grocery. In the display window, black, overripe bananas and lettuce on which a cat was sleeping... Shelves lined with red crepe paper, which was now faded and torn and concentrically spotted…Dahl & Oleson's Meat Market—a reek of blood. A jewelry shop with tinny-looking wristwatches for women.” (Lewis …show more content…
He uses lists and descriptive images like the black and overripe banana and the reek of blood from the meat market to realistically evoke the disgust Carol has for the town. While his objective-Gopher Prairie is a backwards town-is directly stated in the text, it is placed around numerous details that take away from the direct message from the text. Lewis mentions the movie “In Love” and Howland & Gould's Grocery in between the imagery that leads us to his objective. He does this to show the irony in Carol’s view. She only see’s the ominous metaphors like the black banana and the reek of blood while Will see’s a normal town with a normal movie playing. Only Carol is able to see the signs of a backwards town.
C. This quote takes place after the townswomen have mocked her for her progressive ideas and no one accepts her.
She was startled by the return of her father, startled by a sudden conviction that in this flaxen boy she had found the gray reticent judge who was divine love, perfect understanding. She thought about it, cried about it, reaffirmed it, ridiculed it. Of one thing she was unhappily certain: there was nothing of the beloved father image in Will