Tender Is The Night Analysis

Responding to a love that is off-limits between two people is always a topic of interest. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald is mainly about a fictional character named Dick Diver who meets an 18-year-old movie starlet, Rosemary Hoyt in the summer of 1925. Rosemary was on a trip in the French Riviera when she met Dick, the son of a clergyman and an up and coming psychologist. She instantly falls in love with him but doesn’t know of his mentally ill wife, Nicole. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald shows the feeling of indomitable love through Dick and Rosemary even through circumstances where their love is forbidden. He also shows deteriorating mental health through the character of Nicole Diver, who has been sexually abused in her life, causing her to have an acute fear of men. The last topic that Fitzgerald portrays in the novel is forbidden love. He shows us this topic through Dick and Rosemary once again, as they fall in love even through tough

Scott Fitzgerald, was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Mary McQuillin and Edward Fitzgerald. From a young age, Fitzgerald was a smart child and began to write novels . He wrote until he was well into his teens and then went off to war after dropping out of college. When he returned from the war, he fell in love with Zelda Sayre and then later, moved to New York where he convinced Zelda to marry him. Later, they had a daughter and Fitzgerald wrote The Side of Paradise and the very famous The Great Gatsby. After Fitzgerald finished The Great Gatsby, his life began unraveling and he wrote his book Tender is the Night, which turned out to be a commercial failure but after his death, it gained the reputation as one of the greatest American novels. After finishing Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald’s depression grew and he fell deeper into alcoholism. He moved back to Hollywood, to begin writing again and began to write The Love of the Last Tycoon. He died on December 21st, 1940 of a heart attack at the age of