Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934, Tender is the Night is a story about human decay and the degeneration of love and marriage due to excess. Fitzgerald wrote his symbolic novel in the 1920s, the “jazz age” before the Great Depression, the period that clearly indicated that excessive and reckless living has grave and destructive consequences. The novel exemplifies some of the values ​​and vices that are still present in today's society. Fitzgerald uses sensual characterization, connotative symbolism, and vivid detail to emphasize that excess leads to ruin. Fitzgerald creates detailed, dynamic, and believable characters in Tender Night as protagonists Dick Diver, Nicole Diver, and Rosemary Hoyt. Dick Diver is rich, charismatic, popular, and a brilliant psychiatrist, but over the course of the novel he turns into a shadow of the man he was and loses everything. In book 2, which takes place before the events of book 1, famous psychiatrist Dick Diver becomes the doctor of wealthy heiress Nicole Warren, who suffers from a schizophrenic mental disorder due to her father's incestuous behavior with her during childhood. In the first book, which takes place when Dick and Nicole get married, the world of divers is perfect. Their marriage is stable, but this “perfect” life decays over time. Dick Diver's excessive pursuit of beauty as soon as he sees the pretty young Rosemary foreshadows the decay of Diver's marriage. At the beginning of the novel Dick entertains people and brings them happiness by often throwing glamorous parties: “As long as they fully adhered to it, their happiness was his concern” (Fitzgerald 41). Because of his good looks and attractive n...... middle of paper ......sion And Counter-Memory In Tender Is The Night." Essays In Literature 21.1 (1994): 97-115 Literary Reference Center Web. December 1, 2013.Joseph, Tiffany "Non-Combatant's Shock": Trauma and Gender in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is The Night NWSA Newspaper 15.3 (2003): 64-81 Literary. 1 December 2013. Morton-Mollo, Sherry. "Tender is the night." ed.). Oxford University Press. Toles, G. "The Metaphysics of Style in `Tender Is The Night'." American Literature 62.3 (1990): 423. Literary Reference Center 2013Witkoski, Michael. "F. Scott Fitzgerald." Magill's Survey of American Literature, revised edition (2006): 1-11. Literary Reference Center. 2013.