History Literature / TenderIsTheNight

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: When she was institutionalized at Dohmler's clinc, Nicole falls in love with Dick while she is his patient.

* TheBeautifulElite: The Divers as seen through the star-struck eyes of young debutante Rosemary Hoyt. Their parties are the best, their friends are the smartest, and they form such a pretty couple ...

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a line from "Ode to a Nightingale" by Creator/JohnKeats. Other references to nightingales pop up here and there.

* StageMom: Played with - Rosemary's mother does push her into being an actress, but the narrator makes it quite clear that she's ''not'' motivated by a failure to become a successful actress herself.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/TonyBennett Even though our dreams may vanish\\

How tender, how tender the night]] ]]

It tells the story of Dick and Nicole Diver, a pair of wealthy, glamorous American expatriates living in France in the [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]]. At first sight they are the very image of success and connubial harmony, but all isn't what it seems. Dick is in fact a psychoanalyst and Nicole is a former patient of his, a young woman who after her mother's death had a sexual relationship with her father and who suffers from recurring bouts of trauma-induced schizophrenia.

Dick develops a drinking problem and, even as his wife recovers, his own life begins to fall apart. Nicole eventually leaves him for her lover, an assertively macho younger man, while Dick vainly tries to start over.

The novel's story arc actually mirrors Fitzgerald's own life as he was writing it, from the height of success and self-confidence to existential breakdown. It is also infused with a sense of postlapsarian wistfulness, as the hero feels that he is living in a world in which his values are no longer relevant.

->''Her naïveté responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behaviour also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.''

''Tender Is The Night'' is one of Creator/FScottFitzgerald's most famous novels and by some accounts, including the author's own, his greatest. Published in 1934, it tells the story of a couple of wealthy, glamorous American expatriates living in France in the [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]], Dick and Nicole Diver. At first sight they are the very image of success and connubial harmony, but all isn't what it seems. Dick is in fact a psychoanalyst and Nicole is a former patient of his, a young woman who after her mother's death had a sexual relationship with her father and who suffers from recurring bouts of trauma-induced schizophrenia.

A film adaptation was released in 1962, directed by Creator/HenryKing, and starring Creator/JasonRobards and Creator/JenniferJones as the Divers.

A film adaptation was released in 1962, directed by Creator/HenryKing, and starring Creator/JasonRobardsJr and Creator/JenniferJones as the Divers.

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: When she was institutionalized at a Dohmler's clinc, Nicole falls in love with Dick while she is his patient.

* InMediasRes: The 1934 edition opens when Rosemary is meeting the Divers for the first time.

* TenPacesAndTurn: The duel between Barban and [=McKisko=].

* GoldDigger: Baby thinks Dick is one.

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: When she was institutionalized at a mental hospital, Nicole falls in love with Dick while she is his patient.

* BigFancyHouse: The Villa Diana, the Divers' seaside mansion on the Riviera.

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Nicole falls in love with Dick while she is his patient.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Rosemary thinks as much, anyway.
* MaidenAunt: The [[NonIndicativeName ironically named]] Baby, Nicole's older sister.

* UpperClassTwit: Oh, ever so many of them.

* ParentalIncest: Nicole.

* RapeAsBackstory: Nicole.

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** He gets mad when he hears that Rosemary probably had had something with another man before she even met Dick. Dick himself is [[YourCheatingHeart cheating]] on his wife with Rosemary.

* YourCheatingHeart: Dick cheats on Nicole with Rosemary.

''Tender Is The Night'' is one of Creator/FScottFitzgerald's most famous novels. Published in 1934, it tells the story of a couple of wealthy, glamorous American expatriates living in France in the [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]], Dick and Nicole Diver. At first sight they are the very image of success and connubial harmony, but all isn't what it seems. Dick is in fact a psychoanalyst and Nicole is a former patient of his, a young woman who after her mother's death had a sexual relationship with her father and who suffers from recurring bouts of trauma-induced schizophrenia.

* BittersweetEnding
* CreatorBreakdown: Fitzgerald started working on the novel in 1925, but left it unfinished from 1926 to 1932, at which point he made it into a darker story.

* ShoutOut: One of the secondary characters, a hack writer, intends to write a new version of ''{{Ulysses}}''.

** This troper now knows why she put the book down 100 pages in, thoroughly bored. TheReveal sounds like a much better story!