Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934, Tender is the Night is a story about human decadence 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 – a period that clearly showed how excessive and reckless living had serious and destructive consequences. The novel illustrates some of the values ​​and vices still present in today's society. Fitzgerald uses sensual characterization, connotative symbolism, and vivid details to emphasize that excess leads to downfall. Fitzgerald creates detailed, dynamic, and believable characters in Tender is the Night, such as protagonists Dick Diver, Nicole Diver, and Rosemary Hoyt. Dick Diver is rich, charismatic, popular, and a brilliant psychiatrist, but throughout the novel he turns into a shadow of the man he once was and loses everything. In volume 2, which takes place before the events of volume 1, the famous psychiatrist Dick Diver becomes the doctor of the wealthy heiress Nicole Warren, who suffers from schizophrenic mental disorders due to her father's incestuous behavior with her during her childhood. In volume 1, which takes place when Dick and Nicole get married, the world of Miscellaneous is perfect. Their marriage is stable, but this “perfect” life deteriorates over time. Dick Diver's excessive search for beauty as soon as he sees the young and pretty Rosemary foreshadows the breakdown of the Diver's marriage. At the beginning of the novel, Dick entertains people and brings them happiness by often throwing delightful parties: “As long as they fully subscribed to it, their happiness was his concern” (Fitzgerald 41). Due to 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. Web Literary Reference Center. December 1, 2013. Joseph, Tiffany. “Shell-Shock of the Noncombatants”: Trauma and Gender in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is The Night . NWSA Journal 15.3 (2003): 64-81. Internet Reference Center. Morton-Mollo, Sherry. literary reference. November 25, 2013. Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (3rd ed.). Toles, G. "The Metaphysics of Style in 'Tender Is The Night.' " American Literature 62.3 (1990): 423. Literary Reference Center. Internet. November 25, 2013 Witkoski, Michael. "F. Scott Fitzgerald." Magill'S Survey Of American Literature, revised edition (2006): 1-11. Literary Reference Center. Internet. November 25. 2013.