Tender is the Night: Corruption of Alcohol By Larissa Naylor English 12 CP
The Author • Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald • Born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota • Born into an upper middle class • Only son of Edward Fitzgerald and Mary ‘Mollie’ Mc. Quillan • One sister named Annabel- 5 years younger • Began writing at St. Paul Academy • Enrolled in Princeton University in 1913 • Married Zelda Sayre in 1920
Fitzgerald's Works Fitzgerald’s most famous novels include: • Tender is the Night • This Side of Paradise • The Great Gatsby • The Love of the Last Tycoon
Tender is the Night • Published in 1934 • Fitzgerald’s last completed work • Setting: mostly in Southern France and Switzerland • 1913 -1930 • Main Character: Dick Diver • Major Themes: love, transformation, alcoholism, and time
Thesis In my paper, I illustrated and explained how abuse of alcohol effects a person’s psychological mentality.
Tender is the Night as a film • Filmed in Switzerland • Released on February 1, 1962 • Dick Diver: played by Jason Robards • Nicole Diver: played by Jennifer Jones • Director: Henry King • Producer: Henry T. Weinstein • Critics quote poor acting
Dick Diver • Main Character • The American son of a clergyman • Wealthy psychologist • Drinks excessively
Nicole Diver • Dick Diver’s wife • Heiress to a wealthy Chicago magnate • Mentally unstable due to being sexually abused by her father • Mother died when she was a teenager
Rosemary Hoyt • • • Young movie star Born in America Educated in France Travels the world Falls in love with Dick Diver
Abe North • • Friend of Dick Diver Musician Drinks his career away Killed in a New York Speakeasy
Tommy Barban • Half-American, half French-mercenary soldier • Falls in love with Nicole • Nicole falls for him by the end of the novel
Diver vs. Fitzgerald • Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, was admitted to a psychiatric clinic for treatment of schizophrenia • Fitzgerald had an affair with a young movie star, Lois Moran • Friends of the Fitzgerald's can be related to characters in the novel • Like Diver, Fitzgerald drank excessively • Fitzgerald died of heart failure in 1940, at just 40 years old
Bibliography • Blazek, William. “Some Fault in the Plan: Fitzgerald’s Critique of Psychiatry in Tender is the Night. ” Twenty First century Reading of Tender is the Night. Ed. William Blazek and Laura Rattray. Liverpool, L 6797 2 U: Liverpool University Press, 2007. 67 -84 • "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (18961940). " Books and Writers. Web. 17 Feb 2010. <http: //www. kirjasto. sci. fi/fsfitzg. htm>. • "Tender is the Night. " Sparknotes. Web. 16 Feb 2010. <http: //www. sparknotes. com/lit/tender/c ontext. html>.
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