# Champ Perry — Main Street character guide

> Champ Perry in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the Perrys, old Champ Perry

**First appearance:** 0017-iv

## Who they are

An elderly pioneer and former storekeeper, respected by the community.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/iv)

Champ Perry stops Carol in the post-office and compliments her freshness.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/iii)

Pioneer and grain-elevator buyer; Carol visits him and his wife to learn about the old days.

### [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/iv)

Fades into the background as Carol's interest wanes.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/vii)

Leads the Decoration Day procession in his rusty forage-cap.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned alongside Kennicott as an example of someone content with the small-town existence.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/vi)

Mentioned as a kindly provincial who would make the town's lack of great traditions acceptable if all were like him.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/i)

Champ Perry rebukes Miles at the station for blasphemy and lack of patriotism.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/i)

Grief-stricken and physically broken after his wife's death; loses his job at the elevator and is reduced to a night watchman, subject to the town's neglect and cruelty.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/iii)

Champ Perry is one of the few townspeople Carol feels she can nurse and warm to, representing the modest, unpretentious side of the town.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/i)

The night watchman at the mill, greets Carol with affection, saying they missed her terribly.

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