# Mrs. Leonard Warren — Main Street character guide

> Mrs. Leonard Warren in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mrs. Warren

**First appearance:** 0046-i

## Who they are

A society matron in Gopher Prairie.

## In the story

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

President of the Thanatopsis; gives a paper on Byron, Scott, Moore, and Burns, and later responds to Carol's suggestion about Swinburne.

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

President of the Thanatopsis Club, whom Carol plans to approach with her vision for the city hall.

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

The minister's wife listens politely to Carol's vision but redirects the conversation toward the primacy of churches and church-union as the proper center for community life.

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

Defends traditional charity and the Bible, opposing Carol's modern ideas about self-help and scientific reform.

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