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Arrowsmith is a novel concerned with human pettiness and jealousy. Sinclair Lewis views jealousy as one of the strongest—and pettiest—human emotions. Throughout Lewis' work, you'll find people getting jealous because their neighbors have bigger cars or houses than them.
Even Lewis' most moral characters have a hard time overcoming jealousy. Martin Arrowsmith is jealous of colleague's achievements and his wife's admirers. Leora is jealous of the pretty young things that catch Martin's eye. She thinks Martin wants to smooch them. Hmm. Maybe Leora has a point there…
In Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis reminds us that there is no emotion that'll ever hold us back more than jealousy.
In Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis shows that jealousy can be a good thing if it pushes us to become better.