Dick and Nicole Diver, or Dicole, are the main characters from
Tender is the Night, the 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Dr Dick Diver is a young and successful American psychiatrist, working in Europe, who falls in love and marries one of his patients, Nicole Warren. Dick takes on the double role of husband and doctor, watching over Nicole's bursts of schizophrenia. The couple engage in a life of travel and socializing across Europe, fueled by Nicole's money. Then one summer, in the Riviera, they meet young actress Rosemary Hoyt, with whom Dick falls in love. From then on, their relationship begins to deteriorate, and all the conflicts and grudges accumulated during their time together begin to surface, as Dick begins slowly to slide into degradation.
I can only say that I think this book is amazing. I love it because it captures perfectly the dazzling years of the Jazz Age, and because, at the same time, he adds a sense of tragedy and an in-depth knowldge of human nature. I have read a few of his novels and loved each and every one of them. His writing is so poetic and suggesting!
This book is one of my all-time favourites. Definitely unforgettable.
