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Tender is the Night

By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The marriage between a respected doctor and his bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable patient slowly collapses under the weight of obsession, vanity, and existential malaise in this modern classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Set in the south of France in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic tale of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated relationship with the alluring American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle, and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s decline.

Lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked about books of the year when it was originally published in 1934 and is even more beloved by readers today for its examination of beauty and decay.

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“This is my second time reading this. This book felt like I was touring Europe with a lot of drama behind closed doors. The imagery + POVS really set the tone in this book of how everything seems perfect, but is it really? Nicole’s and Dicks relationship was confusing to me both times but what was obvious was Dicks ego and “charm”. Everyone wanted to be near them and know them… Dick had them all fooled and made himself seem like the victim despite all his actions. I loved reading Nicole’s side because it shows how sad her situation has been. She knows she deserves more, she knows Dick isn’t the best, and she’s not even in love with him, yet she feels guilty and stuck in a man’s world. I kind of disliked how Tommy helped her out of marriage, but I guess it’s necessary because Dick is so manipulative. I hate rosemary and her mom. It’s so ironic how dick and rosemary are so similar in terms of narcissism and ego, but they can’t really stand each other because of their own delusions.”

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald’s novels include The Beautiful and DamnedThe Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald’s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

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