Self-Disdain in Tender Is the Night

Abstract

Mansell clearly delineates the similarities between Dr Richard Diver, the protagonist of Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald's late novel, and Fitzgerald himself, his career and view of the world. He cites that the decline of Dr Diver is the decline of the West and its art form, the novel, and that the eastward vision for Fitzgerald is the recidivism of culture to its origins in barbarism.