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- Dick is accused of infidelity by a former patient, and Nicole, in anger, runs their car off the road. Dick learns his father has passed away and heads to America for the funeral. Upon his return, Dick meets Rosemary in a hotel, and the two consummate the aborted romance they had begun several years earlier.
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Disappointed and bitter, Dick ignores his plans with Rosemary that night to get horrifically drunk with Collis Clay instead. He gets into a fight with a group of Italian taxi drivers and ends up at the police station, where he is beaten and jailed.
Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1934
In Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald explores many of the same themes and concepts present in his renowned novel, The Great Gatsby. Both stories depict the lives of wealthy Americans during the 1920s, a decade of great economic prosperity.
The opening chapter sets up, then, two parallel chronicles, that of Dick Diver and that of the woman he will love, Rosemary Hoyt. Just as Tender Is the Night examines Dick Diver's eventual fall from good fortune, so it witnesses Rosemary's loss of innocence, in nearly every meaning of the word.
One night, Dick drinks far too much and becomes embroiled in a dispute with a chiseling taxi driver. When he refuses to pay an exorbitant fare, a fight breaks out, and Dick is arrested.
Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in 1934. The story follows Dick Diver and his wife Nicole’s complicated and tumultuous relationship while in the French Riveria near the end of the Roaring Twenties.
