Tender is the NightTender is the Night::

By Larissa Naylor

English 12 CP

Corruption of Alcohol

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’ McQuillan• 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 most famous Fitzgerald’s most famous

novels include:novels include:

•Tender is the Night

•This Side of Paradise

•The Great Gatsby

•The Love of the Last Tycoon

Fitzgerald's WorksFitzgerald's Works

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

In my paper, I illustrated and explained how abuse of alcohol effects a person’s psychological mentality.

ThesisThesis

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

• Main Character• The American

son of a clergyman

• Wealthy psychologist

• Drinks excessively

Dick DiverDick 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

Nicole Diver

Rosemary HoytRosemary 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 BarbanTommy 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

BibliographyBibliography

• 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, L6797 2U: Liverpool University Press, 2007. 67-84

• "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) ." 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/context.html>.