Dodsworth

Samuel Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer who builds his fortunes in fictional Zenith Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances ‘Fran’ Voelker a beautiful young socialite. While the novel provides the courtship as a backstory the real story begins upon his retirement. Retiring at the age of fifty as a result of his selling of his successful automobile company (The Revelation Motor Company) to a far larger competitor he sets out to do what he had always wanted to experience: a leisurely trip to Europe with his wife with aspirations to visit some manufacturing plants looking for his next challenge.