Tender Is the Night (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: Europe
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Psychology or psychologists, Europe or Europeans, 1920’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Incest, Mental illness, Substance abuse, Adultery, Neuroses
- Locales: Rome, Italy, Riviera, Zurich, Switzerland
Characters Discussed
Dick Diver, a brilliant young psychiatrist who inspires confidence in everyone. As a young man, he met a woman who became a patient and whom he married. He devoted most of his time during the next several years to helping her regain a certain normality. In the process of helping his wife, he loses his own self-respect, alienates most of his friends, and drowns his brilliance in alcohol. His professional position deteriorates to that of a general practitioner in successively smaller towns across the United States.
Nicole Warren Diver, Dick’s wife, a...
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