Tender is the Night | Themes/Characters
Tender Is the Night is the story of a man's gradual deterioration and collapse. Dick Diver is a brilliant young psychiatrist when the novel opens, married to a woman who was one of his patients. Their relationship resembles Fitzgerald's and Zelda's, as Diver is both lover and protector to Nicole Warren. Diver is also trapped by the Warren wealth, using their resources to become a partner in a Swiss clinic and unable to avoid the temptations of an extravagant social calendar which is forcing him to neglect his research. He is eventually driven out of his position at the clinic when...
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