# Stewart Snyder — Main Street character guide

> Stewart Snyder in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Stewart, Stewart dear

**First appearance:** 0001-main-street

## Who they are

Carol's college sweetheart from St. Paul.

## In the story

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

A fellow student at Blodgett College who proposes to Carol, but she rejects him, finding him too conventional.

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

A competent, bulky classmate who shows interest in Carol and suggests she would make a good lawyer's wife.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/v)

A manly suitor who proposes a comfortable domestic life in Yankton, but is rejected by Carol.

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

Stewart is a college friend of Carol's who proposes to her but is rejected. He represents a conventional, predictable future that Carol avoids.

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

Briefly mentioned as a figure Carol thinks of during her conversation with Kennicott, suggesting a past romantic interest.

### [Chapter 1](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/main_street_se/chapters/xxx)

A fellow college student who briefly courts Carol but is rejected.

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