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dozen pages Fitzgerald etches the . empty lives of hollow men, their time, their place, their Long Island manors.
"Tender Is the Night" appeared in 1934. The story of Dick and Nicole Diver is autobiography, thinly disguised. The fictional Dr. Diver is sliding into alcoholism, the fictional Nicole is drifting into madness. Once again, the first few pages offer a textbook for writers.
At a hotel high above the Mediterranean they look down at "the bright tan prayer rug of a beach" below. Fitzgerald captures the changing hues of "a seas as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians of childhood, blue as laundry water, wine dark."
The shafts of simile and metaphor illuminate an unfolding story of Dick and Nicole and the tempting teenaged morsel known as Rosemary. Weak and briefly penitent, Dick finds himself "wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be."
The Divers' marriage slowly
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