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Sumber artikel:Jurnal. Halaman: 73-84 This article is aimed at revealing Sinclair Lewis vision about America in the 20 s. Reffering to the American history this era is regarded as one of the gloomiest eras characteriez especially by provincially mentality attitudes in the American small town. In particultular this article is aimed at revealing Sinclair Lewis ideas of cultural reforn toward those mentality attitudes as reflected in his Main Street . This research uses an interdisciplinary appoarch which inoles historical sociological and cultural perspectives. The result of the research shows that provincial mentality attitudes as reflected in the novel is still pervasive in American small towns. People tend to be self-stastified hypocritical and chauvinistic. Through Carol Kennicott the main character of the novel Sinclair Lewis tries to launch cultural reform in the efforts to develop or improve education sector society town worker and women s organization. Carol cannot implement all oh her ideas of cultural reform immadiately because the villagers still maintained their traditional values. This implies that cultural reform can not be launched revolutionarily but gradually. SIKAP 378.072 VID UPT Perpustakaan UM Koleksi Bahan Pustaka Perpustakaan UM 2 -35961 2010-02-17 00:00:00 2010-02-17 00:00:00 machine generated