# Dawson Hunziker — Arrowsmith character guide

> Dawson Hunziker in Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Hunziker, Mr. Hunziker, Daws Hunziker

**First appearance:** 0014-i

## Who they are

A farmer and neighbor of the Tozers in Wheatsylvania.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/arrowsmith_se/chapters/i)

The head of Dawson T. Hunziker & Co., who telephones Gottlieb to offer him a position, emphasizing the company's ethical mission and willingness to support pure research.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/arrowsmith_se/chapters/ii)

Hunziker's company hires Gottlieb, as announced in medical periodicals.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/arrowsmith_se/chapters/iii)

Hunziker welcomes Gottlieb to his company, praises his discovery, but pressures him to patent and mass-produce the antitoxin for profit, revealing the company's commercial and unethical practices.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/arrowsmith_se/chapters/iv)

Hunziker pressures Gottlieb to commercialize his research, but Gottlieb refuses.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/arrowsmith_se/chapters/iii)

His vaccine is suspected by Martin of being ineffective due to insufficient living organisms.

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