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Summary: wonderfully tragic, beautiful
Review: my first crack at fitzgerald; i'm very impressed. but it requires patience- while overly wordy in places, often incredible actions and insights are buried in single sentences. fitzgerald seems to treat his characters with contempt at times, but we can't stop feeling connected to them. also a wonderful look at the art-deco world of europe between wars.
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Summary: This novel is more revealing about Fitzgeral than the 1920's
Review: I read "Gatsby" and was awed by Fitzgerald's ability to both describe the 1920's and to draw his readers into that postwar period. His characters felt real to me. So, I couldn't wait to read Tender is the Night. "Tender" seems to reveal more about Fitzgerald personal pain than anything else. His novel elaborately blames Nicole for Dick's emotional decay. To me, this story line just doesn't bear close scrutiny. Dick's behavior is controlling,habitually deceitful and at times misogynistic. Time after time Dick control's Nicole's actions and refuses to allow her to even discuss her viewpoint. Nicole's behavior is unbalanced but is it schizophrenic? It's very revealing that a 28 year old man would fall in love with a 16 year old girl. Later, when Nicole has grown up a bit, Dick falls in and out of love with Rosemary, a very child-like 18 year old. Granted, women's rights were along way off in 1925 the year Fitzgerald began writing Tender is the Night, but Dick seems more in charge of Nicole's life than seems warranted by either the prevailing culture or by Nicole's illness. I'd say that Fitzgerald unconsciously revealed his own role in his decaying marriage and like most folks tried to point the finger elsewhere.
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Summary: Tender Is The Nut
Review: This was the first Fitzgerald book I have read since high school. (Actually, I think I used Cliff notes then) I don't think you read "Tender Is The Night" to learn any great answer to life's problems. However,I do think it has a lot to say about relationships between men and women. I also think it makes a comment about conscience. You are not a serious Fitzgerald-head if you have not read this book.
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Summary: Fitzgerald as Dick Diver - this is a novel about anger.
Review: As a lecturer in Anerican Literature, I have always been partial to this novel. To me, Fitzgerald is Dick Diver. The anger that Diver manifests towards Rosemary and Nicole is representative of Fitzgerald's own self-loathing, and his frustrations with his wife, Zelda. The novel itself is so much more dense and full than The Great Gatsby, for example. The characters are more real, if not always as appealing. Read this novel, but read Gatsby first.
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Summary: On the top-5 "american novel" list
Review: If You read Kerouac and Steinbeck, You can find here the roots of all that excitment.
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Summary: Not hard to understand, if you put a little effort in it
Review: I'm flabbergasted! A lot of the reviews on this book are mostly concerned with how hard it is to get something out of Fitzgerald's novel. Messy and incoherent, people seem to think. The point is that this is what it's all about. The world's recently fallen to pieces in what has become known as the Great War. Most of the characters in the novel are aware of this, in one way or another. Consequently, they too are falling to pieces. Hints about this are to be found everywhere in the book, although Fitzgerald often hides them in subtle ways. If you've read this book recently and found it difficult, I strongly advise you to reread it. This is not a book just to glance through.
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Summary: Intriguing and illuminating
Review: This book is full of paradoxes that make you wonder who exactly could invent such a theme. FitzGerald is the answer. He has a capacity like very few others to captivate an audience who may not completely understand his point of view or motive. Nicloe's illness gives an interesting twist to the plot which otherwisse would be a boring story of romance, deception, and of course society. This is a great work of Fitzgerald's but should not be the first book one reads by him.
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Summary: This book was SOOOO good!!!
Review: I liked F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing because of its metaphors and imagery that enable the reader to get a real sense of what is happening to the characters. The characters that he creates are also fascinating. However, I found parts of the storyline to be confusing. The book jumps around in time which was also a little confusing. On a scale of A to F, I would give this book an A-. It is a really great book and I strongly recommend it.
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Summary: entertaining to read but difficult to understand
Review: I had mixed feelings about Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I enjoyed reading about the romance between Nicole and Dick, and then between Rosemary and Dick, and I found that I cared deeply for the characters. I was involved in their lives and felt concern and sorrow for them. Despite these aspects which I enjoyed, there was much of the novel which I felt to be irrelevant and uninteresting. I didn't understand the significance of the story of Abe North's difficulty with the law, the problems between the Divers and a remarried Mary North, and the arrest of Mary North and Lady Sibly-Biers. I was also disappointed in the way Fitzgerald chose to resolve the story. Dick was my favorite character throughout the novel but it seemed in the end that he was sucked dry by Nicole, used and abandoned by Rosemary, and made an outcast by all his friends. I felt that Tender is the Night was weak in terms of historical content. There was little discussion of World War I and the novel didn't create a clear picture of its aftermath. I also had a mixed reaction with regard to Fitzgerald's style of writing. His description was interesting and creative but I was often confused as to the character speaking, the passage of time, and the exact aspects of an event. I finished the novel uncertain about whether or not events had actually occurred and not completely understanding the motivation behind much of the story. Overall I found Tender is the Night to be entertaining to read but at times difficult to understand.
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Summary: Uhhh, very interesting book.
Review: Tender is the Night is THE most confusing book I have ever read. It was required reading for gifted students over the summer. I recommend that if you do read this book, read section 2 first, then 1 and 3. The book goes to a flashback in section 2. This is where it is so confusing. The content was okay, if you like the love and phsycho mix.
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