Tender Is the Night (1934) (edit title/settings)

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• Dick Diver: American psychiatrist, husband of Nicole Diver, one of the novel's main characters. Can arouse fascinated and uncritical love and "carnivals of affection" in others
• Nicole (Warren) Diver: Dick's wife, one of the novel's main characters.
• Rosemary Hoyt: Young film actress whose vacation at the Divers' beach starts the novel's action.
• Abe North: Friend of the Divers', husband of Mary North. A musician who has not composed in 7 years.
• Mary North: Querilous acquaintance of Mrs. Abrams , Mr. Campion, and the Mr Dumphrey; meet the Drivers and friends on the French Riviera, ', a writer and critic, husband of Abe North.
• Violet McKisco: Acquaintance of Mrs. Abrams , Mr. Campion, and the Mr Dumphrey; meet the Drivers and friends on the French Riviera, wife of Albert McKisco -" an arrriviste who has not arrived."
• Tommy Barban: European friend of the Divers', mercenary soldier.
• Baby Warren: Beth Warren, Nicole's sister, who is not very fond of Dick.
• Mrs. Elsie Hoyt Spiers: Rosemary's mother, twice widowed, has invested in her daughter's future and film career.
• Royal Dumphry: Effeminate friend of Mrs. Abrams , Mr. Campion, and the McKiscos; hangs out at the French Riviera where the meet the Drivers and friends
• Lanier Diver: Son of Dick and Nicole
• Topsy Diver: Daughter of Dick and Nicole
• Mrs. Abrams: Friend of the Divers. Hangs out at the French Riviera.
• Luis Campion: Bald, hairy chested, monocle wearing acquaintance of Mrs. Abrams , the McKiscos, and Mr Dumphrey; meets the Drivers and friends on the French Riviera,
• Collis Clay: Took Rosemary to the prom at Yale. Has feelings for Rosemary that are not returned
• Ed Elkins: Dicks roommate at school
• Dr. Franz Gregorovius: Dr. Diver's colleague. They open a clinic together near Zurich.
• Kaethe Gregorovious: Franz' wife.
• Deveraux Warren: Nicole's father
• Earl Brady: American movie director in Monte Carlo who would like to work with Rosemary Hoyt.

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• “The moment when the guests had been daringly lifted above conviviality into the rarer atmosphere of sentiment, was over before it could be irreverently breathed, before they had half realized it was there.”

  Rosemary on the party

• “He tried breaking into other dialogues, but it was like continually shaking hands with a glove from which the hand had been withdrawn.”

  Abe McKisco

• “You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a very long time that actually did look like something blooming.”

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• Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy—one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

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• After lunch they were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others, and missing the clamor of Empire they felt that life was not continuing here.

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• Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man’s world—they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them.

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• Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

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• She did not know yet that splendor is something in the heart; at the moment when she realized that and melted into the passion of the universe he could take her without question or regret.

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• Paris
• Zurich
• America
• Chicago
• France
• Cannes
• New York
• Riviera
• New Haven
• Lausanne
• London
• Europe
• Hollywood
• Rome
• Buffalo
• California
• Monte Carlo
• Switzerland
• Russia
• Munich
• Gstaad
• Geneva

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3511 .I9 1934
• Dewey: 813.52

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics › Fitzgerald, F. Scott
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( F ) › Fitzgerald, F. Scott
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Tender is the Night (1962) (IMDb): Staring Jason Robards, Jennifer Jones, and Joan Fontaine

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