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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. Closely mirroring Fitzgerald’s relationship with his wife Zelda, one of the major tensions in the novel is Dick’s increasing alcoholism and Nicole’s declining mental health, as well as Dick’s affair with a young actress that pushes him further away from Nicole. Tender Is the Night was first published in Scribner’s Magazine as a four-part serialization, and though responses were mixed when it initially appeared, it has come be to considered Fitzgerald’s masterpiece by many scholars. John Keats’s poem “Ode to a Nightingale” was the inspiration for the title of the novel.Read the full book summary, a complete list of character descriptions, and mini essays about key topics from Tender Is the Night.
