Tender Is the Night
novel by Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night, semiautobiographical novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1934. It is the story of a psychiatrist who marries one of his patients; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgeraldās words, un homme Ć©puisĆ© (āa used-up manā). At first a charming success, Dick Diver disintegrates into drunkenness, failure, and anonymity as his wife Nicole recovers her strength and independence. Fitzgeraldās portrayal of the Diversā life of...