See no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil
We found this little passage to be confusing: "Dick Diver came and brought with him a fine glowing surface on which th...French Riviera and Switzerland in the early 1900s
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map of France helps us unde...
Third Person (Omniscient)-First Person (Central Narrator)
For the most part, the third person narrator of Tender is the Night occupies the points of vie...Modernism, Surrealism, Horror or Gothic Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
Tender is the Night is a modernist classic. Modernism as a literary movement...Anguished, Hopeful
As we discuss in the "The Book," this novel took about eight years to write and was laboriously revised and cut from many thousands of pages..."All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
That’s a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald in an undated letter to his daughter. We thin...The title is taken from the fourth stanza of John Keats’s famous poem, "Ode to A Nightingale." Several lines from the verse also function as the novel’s epigraph, which we discuss in Sh...
"Already with thee! tender is the night.
… But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways."
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The action of the novel stops in the summer of 1930. The ending though, in three brief paragraphs, gives us a very distant glimpse of what happens to a few characters some unspecified years into th...
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