The protagonist of the novel Main Street is the young college graduate Carol Milford. She is “small and exquisite” (169) but very “energetic” (2). Her hair is dark to match her eyes, which are always “observant” (3). She takes pride in her thin ankles and delicate wrists. The girls in her college dorm whisper to each other that she is “psychic” and “spiritual,” (2) and they are amazed by her tiny body and lively spirit. Carol is a hopeless romantic who is passionate about the arts, and she especially loves to read poetry. After she is married to a small town doctor named Will Kennicott, she moves to his home in Gopher Prairie.
When Carol first arrives in “G.P.” as the residents lovingly call it, she is disappointed by the “planle
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