The Descent of Dick Diver in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night Essays

The narrator suffers from catalepsy, a physical condition in which the individual cannot move or speak for hours or, in extreme cases, for months. According to the narrator’s explanation, what are some of the ways that one can tell a cataleptic is still living?

In chapter 2 Tom takes Nick to meet Myrtle, his lover, in the Valley of Ashes, where her home is. They all then go to New York, to the apartment bought by Tom for Myrtle, and Myrtle organises a ‘party’, during which she argues with Tom, which ends with him punching her.

We 've went through Dick 's nature and nurture, so we now know which one has made more of a effect in Dick 's life. Dick 's nurture had no wretched acts in it. His parents made sure he could go as far as they could help him go, and his siblings never did anything bad to him. The only act that was even a slight bit unnerving for Dick was that he couldn 't go to college. He was raised to a standard of excellence, and he used his raising to a good advantage for a good part of life. His nature was marvelous as well. He inherited good looks and he received a prepossessing mind. However, his nature was disturbed by a calamity involving cars. After his adversity, Dick had started implementing illicit activities

At the end of the book, we find out that Dick was in a car crash that impaired his brain, and is therefore, why he acts almost bipolar.

Nick is the narrative reader in The Great Gatsby. Gatz was a poor person that changes his name to Gatsby. Tom was a cheater and was unfaithful to Daisy. Daisy was a flirt and rich. Myrtle is a poor women that lived over her and her husband’s garage shop. Myrtle would let Tom push her around because he was a rich man that would let Myrtle forget that she was poor.

The main flaw being that Dick is not self-aware enough to focus on the direction his own life needs to go in. This can be seen through Dick's choosing Nicole over his work. He happens to be very talented in his field of psychology, but his career never truly progresses because he is constantly focusing on others. Dick's major flaws of lack in discipline and of "judgement about [him]self," cause him to focus on garnering the approval of others, rather than his own work(Fitzgerald 172). The sacrifices that Dick is forced to make in order to be with Nicole, a former patient of his who's sanity depends on their relationship, shows that he is willing to sabotage his own well-being just to be loved. Regardless of his educational and mental advantages, Dick is shown to be a very weak-minded character. Therefore, Dick is unable to be the hero people see him as and need him to be. His wife, Nicole, relies on him to be not only her husband, but her caretaker. This responsibility, along with keeping people happy in all of his interactions makes it hard for Dick to live his life. Dick had "the passions of many men inside of him and nothing simple that he could see"(Fitzgerald 156). As Dick is not even able to fully understand himself, he's in no position to be helping others do this. He isn't nearly strong enough to take on the many roles his life and marriage require. While it seems like a noble cause for Dick to

Charles Scribner III in his introduction to the work remarks that “the title evokes the transient, bittersweet, and ultimately tragic nature of Fitzgerald’s ‘Romance’ (as he had originally subtitled the book)” (Fitzgerald ix). Tender Is the Night parallels Fitzgerald’s own struggles with his mentally ill Zelda, and the characters are carefully constructed from his interactions with the social elite of artists,

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby focuses on the corruption of the American dream during the 1920‘s. For the duration of this time period, the American dream was no longer about hard work and reaching a set goal, it had become materialistic and immoral. Many people that had honest and incorruptible dreams, such as Jay Gatsby, used corrupted pathways to realize their fantasy. People’s carelessness was shown through their actions and speech towards others. Fitzgerald uses characterization and symbolism from different characters and items to convey the corruption of the American dream.

Jake Barnes was wounded during the First World War and as a result is rendered impotent. His injury keeps him from being with Brett Ashley, a woman he has loved for a very long time, but is unwilling to commit to Jake because she is unwilling to forsake her sex life. Dick Diver is a psychiatrist who has married a former patient, Nicole. Though ostensibly

In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of English boys in their adolescence are stranded on an island. They crash-land while being evacuated because of an atomic war, so the boys must learn to cooperate with each other in order to survive. The boys are civil at first, but the bonds of civilization unfold as the rapacity for power and immediate desires become more important than civility and rescue. The conflict between Ralph, the protagonist, and Jack, the antagonist, represents the conflict between the impulse to civilization and the impulse to savagery, respectively. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Ralph and Jack’s struggle for power to show that greed and lust for power can corrupt the best

The first symbol we see appears at the end of Chapter one. It is a

Everyone loved Dick he was admired in school up until his crash.“An outstanding athlete - always on the first team at school. Basketball! Baseball!Football! Dick was always the star player.A pretty good student, too, with A marks in several subjects.” After his crash, he became a psychopath he couldn't help his thoughts and the fact that he felt no remorse for anything he ever did.He even admits that it wasn’t the money that he went for it was Nancy. “Before I ever went to their house I knew there would be a girl there. I think the main reason I went there was not to rob them but to rape the girl. Because I thought a lot about

The scene at the beach shows some clues about Dick’s secret. Based on the scene at the beach you can tell Dick can’t hide his sexually attraction to the little girl. The quote “The child accepted the gift, where upon dick smiled and winked at her” (201). Helps prove that Dick is attracted to the little girl and has no control over it. Another quote that helps support Dick’s attraction to the young girl is “He took the child’s hand and said, “You’re my baby girl, my little sweetheart” (201). He thought by being charming, the little girl would like him and be with him but she didn’t. He was trying to make the little girl fall for him since he was attracted to her.

Continuing throughout the story, the narrator not only notice the good in Dick 's character, but also became suspicious of other things as well. He senses a presence at times in which he feels is creeping in the dark. Dick continued on

Nicole, although beautiful and elegant, was flawed. Described by Dick as a ‘beautiful empty shell', she was the object of Dick Diver's romantic imagination. He took it upon himself, to obtain this ‘beautiful shell', despite the obvious problems and warnings from his associates. Looking at his ‘need' for her, it wasn't just love; it was also the need for a challenge and he put his entire effort into proving that Nicole could be changed. When he met Rosemary, things started to look up. Finally he had met a woman, although not as beautiful as Nicole, that was stable and independent. He took advantage of her love for him to experience what a relationship with two equal participants would be like. After he had tasted what a relationship like this was like, his dream became