Oct 15, 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: 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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Tender is the Night | Tender Is the Night

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Characters Discussed

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