Gopher Prairie
When Will Kennicott first tells Carol about her new home of Gopher Prairie, she imagines a quaint country town that she'll be able to transform into a thriving world of culture. But from the moment...
Main Street
As the title of the novel suggests, Main Street in Gopher Prairie plays a central symbolic role in the book. When Carol Kennicott first sees the town, all she sees is that "Main Street with its two...
The Village Virus
The Village Virus is a concept invented by Guy Pollock that explains how people who move to small towns eventually lose their ambition and settle into a life of quiet mediocrity. As he puts it hims...