American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1411 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*Tender Is the Night* and the Later Fitzgerald
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The idea
Tender Is the Night follows a psychiatrist who marries a patient and is consumed by her recovery and by expatriate life on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's own later years were spent in debt, illness and Hollywood screenwriting, and he died at forty-four with a novel unfinished.
In practice
A doctor consumed by his patient.
Where people slip
The late career is a decline he wrote about.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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