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• W221570375 abstract "SAM DODSWORTH TRAVELS from his midwestern Zenith major cities of Europe in cars, on trains, on ocean steamers, and even on an airplane. However, say Sinclair Lewis's is novel about travel is as gross an understatement as say Hemingway's A Farewell Arms is novel about war. Lewis's 1929 novel chronicles physical and psychological travels of retired auto magnate and his Daisy Buchanan-like wife, Fran, as learns negotiate unfamiliar territories in Europe and at home in America. Martin Light defines Dodsworth's excursion as quixotic, an adventure which battles windmills of illusion and reality (4). Another modern critic, Bridget Puzon, asserts Dodsworth's quest is more of mental exercise, pioneering journey whose horizons, though known and mapped out geographically, simultaneously lead unknown territory within himself (575). To be sure, Lewis's use of transportation metaphors in Dodsworth's exploration of exotic continental customs directly corresponds his examination of his own foreign psychological spaces. Effectively, realizes his wrong turns on life's highways and, rather than internalize dead end existence parked by side of road, he seeks create internal combustion engine, revelation of himself. According Martin Light, Dodsworth's search for self-definition is quixotic search which negotiates contrast between romance and realism. Light's The Quixotic Vision of Sinclair Lewis adds earlier critical studies by Mark Schorer and Sheldon Grebstein by investigating quixotic impulse in Lewis's fiction as way of exploring satiric characterization. Lewis uses series of European adventures as means of moving from Fran, a figure of romantic yearnings, Edith Cortright, woman who [Dodsworth] has now courted rightly, with common sense and clear vision (Light, 108). Educated in stock sentimentalism, travels into world without any real sense of what he will encounter and must be shaken back reality by truth of his actual against his own romantic projections (110). contrasts Europe with his own midwestern Zenith and realizes he doesn't know either. More importantly, he doesn't fit in either. These conflicts lead Dodsworth's realization that his dissatisfaction with America is also deep dissatisfaction with himself (111). Dodsworth's eventual return Edith proves his psychological growth and cements fusion of the thinker and builder, sensitive artist and pragmatic realist into man (115). Light believes Dodsworth's merging of Europe's values and America's energy provided Lewis's fiction an avenue of new attitudes, perceptions on life--an avenue which, Light feels, Lewis left untraveled (115). Similarly asserting is a pivotal book for Lewis's career, Puzon's From Quest Cure: The Transformation of Dodsworth examines how novel deviates both from expected pattern and from integrity of genre [of Lewis's satiric literature] (573, 574). Puzon alleges this stylistic shift is result of Lewis's own personal life and author's connection Dodsworth's character based on Schorer's biography. Lewis retains his characteristic use of binary relationships, such as differences between America and Europe, ironically show reduction and stereotyping of complex issues. As Puzon notes, for ever-fickle Fran to love one is despise other; Fran can travel no middle ground (576). At first she abhors dailyness of Midwest and longs for mystery of Europe; then, once rejected by she longs again for solidness of American culture. Such dichotomous relationships exemplify the liveliness of Lewis' [sic] technique for satiric portraiture, mechanically consistent despite experience (579). By Puzon's contrasting of Lewis's earlier Babbittish midwestern conformity with kinder, gentler quest for autonomous selfhood in Dodsworth, her reading of novel as journey self-awareness culminates in an uncharacteristic sensuous sentimentalism--a shift in narrative, genre, and metaphor. …" @default.
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• W221570375 title "Dodsworth's Revelation: Motoring toward Self" @default.
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