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Nicole's Illness In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Having to care after Nicole's illness becomes very frustrating for Dick Diver. When Nicole was a little girl her father violated her,“[Nicole and I] were just like lovers and ten minutes after it happened I could have shot myself” (Fitzgerald 129). This happened after Nicole’s mother passed away. Nicole's father feels regret after raping his daughter but that doesn't change the fact that he did it. Dereux Warren is the one to blame for his daughter’s illness. If he would have never done this to Nicole her life with Dick would’ve been picture perfect. Nicole suffers from a illness called Schizophrenia. A disorder that affects a person's ability to think,feel and behave properly. Nicole knew that her illness affected dick, “[you] could get to …show more content…

Ever since Dick Diver married Nicole he knew it wouldn't be easy. “ [He] is no less aware that [his] marriage to Nicole is likely to fail.. Nicole's illness is permanent”(Smith 259). Her illness makes her seem as if she is still a little girl. Nicole still can’t depend on herself, Dick Diver acts as her guide,husband, psychiatrist, caretaker etc and after each breakdown that she has he has to be there for her to try and calm her down. He plays a lot of roles for her which comes to exhaust him. Dr. Dohmler was the owner of the clinic before Dick Diver was he tells Dick to stop seeing Nicole because she is a illed patient and warned him about her even his friends warned him that marrying a patient would be difficult. And they were right, Dick thought he really had nothing to worry about but he was wrong. It was too much for Dick to handle. At one point in the story she has a serious mental breakdown. They have accused her husband of having an affair with a 15 year old who happens to be one of Dick Divers patients. Dick denies this and claims that the woman is “lying”. Once Nicole finds out about this she is infuriated, while Dick is driving back from the fair Nicole loses it and tries to drive the car of a cliff while her kids are in the

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