Symbolism In Tender Is The Night

The enthralling novel, Tender Is The Night by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, engulfs his reader in the tragic story of Dick and Nicole Diver through their toxic marriage, numerous affairs and mental illness; all the while contemplating one's ultimate mortality and loss of youth and hope through a series of unfortunate events. Fitzgerald, a 20th century novelist, conveys a message of Dick’s irrevocable broken life; through symbolism, parallelism, and metaphors. I NEED HELP I SUCK ASS A THESIS STATEMENTS I KNOW I KNOW UGH ASDKBWKFHIAO
Beloved writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Born to Mary McQuillan and Edward Fitzgerald, Francis was the center of their lives. Francis’s father came from a
Sexual metaphors are abundant in Tender is the Night, they enable readers to see the theme of incest more clearly. Sexual metaphors can be found in almost every chapter in Book One, through this readers are given an inside look of Dick’s inability to see when he crosses professional and moral lines. Throughout the novel Dick has an internal power struggle between his code of conduct and what he really wants. It is quite odd that he compares rosemary so often to a child; the he uses this to dismiss Nicole when she asks him and the affair. “Such a lovely child, he said gravely. Suddenly she came toward him, her youth vanishing as she passed inside the focus of his eye and he had kissed her breathlessly as if she were any age at all, (Fitzgerald 93). After Dick gives into his immoral desires, he completely ignores his earlier moral code of conduct dilemma. Dick is old enough to be Rosemary’s father, the age gap between the two crosses a moral line. Dick uses Rosemary’s youth as an excuse to not love her, but then he does what he wants anyway; leading her on and then crawling back to Nicole, for the stability he can not find with someone