Need for Control in Fitzgeralds Tender is the Night Essays

Need for Control in loving is the Night peter Divers love for his wife, Nicole, in F. Scott Fitzgeralds T halter is the Night, is based rigorously on his need to assert nurse and act as manage taker to her due to her illness. He assumes this role in order to feel governance for his own lack of achievement in his professional life. The only sure achiever he can be credited is Nicoles cure, achieved through and through his homage and care thus he continually tries to replicate this previous success in his relationships to other childly girls. He looks to be a seed of warmth and stability just as he had been for Nicole, relying on him for caring and protection from her illness. The growth of Dick and Nicoles relationship is shown through letters pen by Nicole. Although on that point are none of Dicks replies to refer to we see the exchange in Nicole from incoherent babble to normal correspondence. Dr. Gregory thus attributes the case to Dick as a success, When the chan ge began, delicacy prevented me from opening any more. rattling it had become your case(136). Nicole comes to rely on his letters at the clinic and is justificatory when he doesnt write, fearing she has lost him But when Dicks answer was delayed for any reason, there was a fluttering burst of worry-like a worry of a devotee Perhaps I have bored you, and Afraid I have presumed(142). He is her conjunctive outside of the clinic and she desperately needs that relationship and his approval. Nicole is repeatedly described through her pull a face as young and innocent, She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like the lost youth of the world, and whenever he turned to her she was smiling a little, her face lighting up like an angels...(153). The love she feels for D... ...glish things the story of serious gardens ringed around by the sea was implicit in her happy voice...(248). In each of these he is looking for love outside of the control he once had over Nicole and in doing s o is drawn to the young and impressionable girls he sees and assumes he can replicate his love with Nicole. The virtuoso(a) loss of control over Nicole and over her illness is the ultimate transfer of Dick. She hated the beach, resented the places where she had played planet to Dicks sun. Why Im almost complete, Im practically stand up alone, without him(321). Nicoles realization of her freedom leads her away from Dick, and his only success was in the end his greatest failure, the loss of love of his wife and his loss of the life he knew. Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York Charles Scribners Sons, 1961