Tender Is the Night (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1920’s
- Setting: Europe
- Principal Characters: Dick Diver, Nicole, Rosemary Hoyt, Tommy Barban
- 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
The Story:
Rosemary Hoyt was just eighteen, dewy fresh and giving promise of beautiful maturity. In spite of her youth, she was already a famous actress, and her film Daddy’s Girl was all the rage. She had come to the south of France with her mother for a rest after having become very ill from diving repeatedly into a Venetian canal during the shooting of her picture.
At the beach, she met Dick Diver and suddenly realized that she was in love. After she became well acquainted with the Divers, she also came to like Diver’s wife, Nicole, a strikingly beautiful...
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