Sep 8, 2008

Tender is the Night | Tender Is the Night

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Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
First Published: 1934
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: 1920’s
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

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*French Riviera. Resort area along France’s Mediterranean coast that the novel refers to as the “home” of Dick Diver and his wife. The novel opens there, and the Divers periodically return there, and there the novel concludes with Dick blessing the beach from a terrace. As a literary device, the Riviera and its cities represent various aspects of the characters, the lives they lead, and the kinds of people they are becoming. The Riviera is pictured as a playground for the rich and famous, a place where Rosemary attends empty, pretentious parties with the...

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Tender is the Night | Tender Is the Night

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