Tender is the Night | The Essential Theme
In the following article, Hall discusses how the use of dialogue in Fitzgerald’s novel provides the essential themes of the novel.
Fitzgerald’s handling of dialogue in Tender is the Night has not so far received sufficient critical attention. In this article I intend to examine three quotations to demonstrate that it is, in fact, in the dialogue that the essential theme of the novel is most clearly revealed.
In the early part of the novel we witness the Divers’ relationship through the innocent eyes of Rosemary, who “knew the Divers loved each other because it had been her primary assumption.” The Divers have a party to which Dick invites Rosemary and her mother. There has been no indication...
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