Influences From F. Scott Fitzgeralds Life Found in...

Fitzgerald began working on ‘Tender is the Night’ during the late 1920s but found it difficult as his wife Zelda’s mental illnesses and their money issues had affected him. When Zelda had her first nervous breakdown in 1930s they were living in Europe and she was hospitalized in Switzerland. It became certain that she would never recover fully. Fitzgeralds father died in 1931, which can be seen in the novel portrayed as Dick’s father’s death. Combined with his insistent alcoholism, these misfortunes and setbacks overwhelmed him. Fitzgerald had settled in suburban Baltimore by 1932, and had finally settled on what his novel was going to be about. The books plot was about a gifted young psychiatrist called Dick Diver. He marries one of his patients, Nicole Warren. Dick had virtually limitless potential and when he decides to decision to marry a woman he falls in love with who is mentally ill, he eventually descends into depression and alcoholism as the ir disaster-prone relationship fails. The book went through many versions and took a lot of time; the original story was to be about matricide, the act of killing ones Mother. â€Å"Such a laboured birth of his fourth novel had never been the writer’s original intention† (Blazek, 1). The book can be described as a thinly-veiled somewhat autobiographical novel due how similar the story’s main plot is to Fitzgerald’s own life. It is echoing Fitzgeralds difficulties with his wife Zelda. It also depicts the damaging effects of havingShow MoreRelatedF. Scott Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby1972 Words   |  8 PagesFitzgerald’s influences How did F. Scott Fitzgerald create the stories we know and love? Who did Fitzgerald use as his muse for his female characters? 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