Tender Is The Night Analysis

Although a number of people are not familiar with the book Tender is the Night, most of them do know and have read the book the Great Gatsby. Just like the Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night was also written by Fitzgerald in way to reflect the society during the Roaring Twenties. For people who read both books, they tend to do a lot of comparison when reading through. Familiar with Fitzgerald’s way of writing a tragic story, much of people expect the novel Tender is the Night to contain the same dark and depressing component within the story as they are in The Great Gatsby. Just as what I expected, those two story do share a lot of similarities on several different aspects. Love created struggles for both of young men in two s The
After the first sight, Nicole falls in love with Dick and they finally married to each other. Their relationship seems pretty good at the beginning both for the other characters in the novel and the readers outside of the story. Even later when Rosemary figured Dick and Nicole are alone expressing their love to each other. Nevertheless, as the story goes on, their relationship generally falls apart resulting on Nicole’s recovery. In order to help Nicole to recover, Dick gives up all his enterprise to Nicole. Meanwhile, as Nicole’s illness is getting better and better, she becomes more and more independent. Unlike before, she does not need to relay on Dick as she used to be. Dick, however, finds uncomfortably hard to fit into the environment especially when he figured that he is just a tool for the family to deal with Nicole’s illness. With those in mind, Dick has changed from a positive well mannered man to a man who is pathetic and depressed. As a result, the love between Nicole and Dick finally falls apart, ending up with divorce. Based on both of the story, Love seems to be the most significant factor that destroys both Dick and Gatsby. In fact, however, there is a more important aspect that Fitzgerald wants to show through the stories. It is the impact of the background society, the putrefaction of the Roaring Twenties, and the confusion of the young