Salibelle Royster

This concise supplement to Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.

A large book of much variety, it combines romance and realism and resembles more than one fictional genre. The story is partly an adolescent's initiation into the adult world, partly a romance, and partly a murder mystery. It is also a novel of social criticism and the inhumanity of the law.