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"How Art Thou Lost": Reconsidering the Fall in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night

In Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald retells the story of the Fall from Genesis through psychologist Dick Diver and his wife and patient Nicole, drawing poetic and thematic inspiration from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. This essay traces the progression of the Divers’ fall and ultimate separation through the novel’s three books and considers how the highly autobiographical foundation of the novel, which has drawn considerable critical attention, may in fact allow Fitzgerald to craft a work that aligns with and simultaneously expands upon Milton’s interpretation of the Fall.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:scholarworks.gsu.edu:english_theses-1128
Date11 May 2012
CreatorsZaring, Meredith A
PublisherScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
Source SetsGeorgia State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceEnglish Theses

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