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by by F. Scott F. Scott FitzgeraldFitzgerald

Tender is the Night Tender is the Night (1934)(1934)

F. Scott Fitzgerald1896-1940

Born in St. Paul, MinnesotaBorn in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Family a mixture of old Family a mixture of old money on his mother’s money on his mother’s side and working class side and working class on his father’s.on his father’s.1911-1912 Attended a 1911-1912 Attended a prep school in New prep school in New Jersey.Jersey.

He is best known for his He is best known for his novels and short stories novels and short stories which chronicle the which chronicle the excesses of America's 'Jazz excesses of America's 'Jazz Age' during the 1920sAge' during the 1920s.

1917 - 1917 - Dropped out Dropped out

to enlist in to enlist in the Army the Army

during WW1during WW1

Zelda Syre Zelda Syre 1900-19481900-1948

He married to Zelda He married to Zelda Sayre in 1920, who is Sayre in 1920, who is from a wealthy family; from a wealthy family; father a senator, father a senator, grandfather a judge.grandfather a judge.

Zelda would not marry Zelda would not marry Fitzgerald unless he Fitzgerald unless he showed promise of showed promise of making some money.making some money.

1921 - Zelda has a baby 1921 - Zelda has a baby girl, Scottiegirl, Scottie

The couple becomes The couple becomes the epitome of the the epitome of the Roaring Twenties: Roaring Twenties: women get the right women get the right to vote, prohibition, to vote, prohibition, women’s fashions women’s fashions change, women start change, women start attending college.attending college.

They have wild parties

The family moves to Paris

Zelda diagnosed schizophrenic and is placed in a sanitorium in Switzerland.Fitzgerald can’t visit but sends her flowers daily

Scot dies in 1940 of a heart attack.Zelda dies in 1948 in a fire in a mental institution.

Published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920.

Flappers and Philosophers (1920) The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), 1925 - The Great Gatsby published. 1935 - Publishes Tender is the Night.

BiblioghraphyA writer of the “Lost

Generation”This generation “grew up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.”

“flapper” - modern young ladies of that period who smoked, drank whisky, and lived dangerously free lives

The Great Gatsby (1925)

the greatest 20th century novel

Tender is the Night (1934), Most ambitious novel, but a commercial

failurethe story of Dick Diver and his schizophrenic wife

Nicole, goes some way to show the pain that Fitzgerald

felt.

Tender is the night

Characters

Dick Diver, a handsome American psychologist in his thirties, married to Nicole Diver- one of his mental patients.Rosemary Hoyt, a beautiful eighteen-year-old movie starlet, who falls in love in Dick.

SettingSettingThe setting is at the French Riviera

The plot and its conflict Dick has an affair with Rosemary, and his

marriage to Nicole starts to fail over time. Dick himself starts to fall apart both physically and emotionally, and he develops a drinking problem. At the end of the novel, Dick moves back to America and his condition starts to improve.

Nicole Warren- Dick's beautiful mental patient (and then wife). Her family is very wealthy and she likes to travel all over Europe and live extravagantly. Nicole is always slipping back and forth between sanity and insanity. After her marriage to Dick fails, she marries Tommy Barban

Rosemary: Dick's younger lover. She is a beautiful actress who has many boyfriends. She tells Dick that he is the only one she has ever really loved. Dick thinks he loves her, but then realizes she is too immature for him.

Tommy Barban Nicole Warren Dick & Nicole

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