Tender Is the Night Summary
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Biography EssayF. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the song... Read more

F. Scott Fitzgerald died on the afternoon of December 21, 1940, suffering a fatal heart attack as he was finishing a chocolate bar--one of his placebos for the alcohol that had ravaged both his talent... Read more

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, ... Read more

In the following essay, Kennedy contrasts the depictions of French and American life in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood. Gertrude Stein remarked... Read more

In Tender Is The Night, Fitzgerald traces the lives of its three main characters: Dick and Nicole Diver, and Tommy Barban. Throughout the novel their tempers change, their lives turn to a different wa... Read more

Exploring the tension between truth and illusion is a frequent preoccupation of twentieth century American literature. Compare and contrast the treatment of this theme in `Tender is the Night' and at ... Read more

Tender is the Night Book Notes is a free study guide on Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Browse the summary below:   Author Biography / Context of the Work   One-Page Plot Sum... Read more