Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis's Dodsworth: Lewis in Fine Form

Sinclair Lewis was an excellent American author, and Dodsworth is one of his finest novels and remains widely read even if it remains in the shadow of the big three.

Dodsworth: An Early Fictional Commentary on Marriage

Lewis noticed the institution of marriage coming apart earlier than most

Samuel Dodsworth is the protagonist of Lewis's 1929 novel Dodsworth is a kindly man who is unlike many of the other main characters in Zenith, the ficitonal Midwestern city where many of Lewis's early novels take place.

Dodworth is 50, a big and kind man forced into retirement after selling his business who goes to Europe with his wife Frances, who has a large series of affairs. Dodsworth seems a clean and likable character, who knows this is going on, and is divorced in Austria when Frances thinks she'll marry an Austrian count.

However, old and with the count's mother refusing to marry them since she can't produce children, Frances goes back to Sam, who has spent several quiet weeks in Sicily, with Edith Cortwright, an Americn widow and expatriate whom Sam hits it off with.

The novel ends with Sam trying to reconcile with his wife, but then deciding on Edith...or maybe not. Sinclair Lewis leaves this novel open ended, leaving the reader wondering what exactly the end result is.

The novel was popular enough that it became a Broadway play that had a great running, and in 1936 this book was also made into a film that is still available to this day.

Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth

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Dodsworth

by: Sinclair Lewis

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Dodsworth

A DVD copy of this fantastic (maybe even timeless?) movie.

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