A Comparison between the Journeys in Taken by the Main Characters in Candide and Arrowsmith

A wise man once said, "Success is a journey, not a destination." Authors were using the idea of a journey before Homer wrote the Odyssey. This literary tradition has continued to the present. Two authors that embrace this idea are Voltaire and Sinclair Lewis. In their books Candide and Arrowsmith respectively, a man is followed on his trek through life and the discoveries that he makes along the way.
The two young men start out life as two completely different men. Martin Arrowsmith, the main character of Arrowsmith, begins life in the small town of Elk Mills in the state of Winnemac. …