F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is The Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most enduring American novelists of all time, his whose name still summons the mesmerizing magic of the Jazz Age, the Golden Age or the Roaring Twenties. Although F. Scott Fitzgerald is widely known for his dealing of subjects such as the American Dream, many agree that his treatment of female characters in most of his novels is predictable and colloquial. Tender is the Night is not only a novel that challenges Fitzgerald´s traditional style, but it is also a written masterpiece that presents and proposes a different perspective towards women. Secondary female characters are abundant in the novel, as they each play a small part into building up the entire climax of the story. With their newly found voice,

Scott Fitzgerald treatment characters on Tender is The Night.” As mentioned before, the general concept on secondary characters, especially female ones, is that they are merely a supporting role for the main character, and do not contribute anything significant to the novel. The objective of this work is to challenge those with this conventional ideology. The setting, plot structure and tone of the novel all encourage and conform help to develop? the characterization of the given characters. Tender is the Night is a novel purely driven by female consent, their actions and thoughts mould and echo all the events taking place in the narrative. By pulling women from the background there will be a greater comprehension of the

novel Rosemary’s movie “Daddy´s girl” portrays in an obvious way this paternal instinct, even though Rosemary was solely raised by her mother. When Dick starts his affair with Rosemary, D. Diver starts to fall into the trance of the Father-Daughter relationship. Dick calls her “Such a lovely child” (pg. 63) as Rosemary is in some level his daughter, even as she is the object of his erotic desire. From Rosemary’s part, she is attracted to him because there is a promise in his voice that he´ll “take care of her” (pg. 16). This promise enriches further the paternal feeling in the relationship. On the other hand Dick comes to see his daughter in potentially the same terms as he sees the actress: “Rosemary was young and magnetic, but so was Topsy ” (pg.