Arrowsmith is a novel by Sinclair Lewis about Martin Arrowsmith, a young man passionately devoted to science and medicine. It was a little long and didn’t have a lot of action to it. There is school and love and research and eventually, the loss of his wife to malaria in a remote country. I liked the character, but did find him often selfish, neglecting all else in his pursuit of research. His wife knew what she married in to, but it was still frustrating to see their marriage self-destruct and to see his interest in a younger woman.
There is something to respect about the literary value of the novel, but I wouldn’t read it again and I doubt most people would appreciate it.
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