The Masked Autobiography
As chance may have it, many times in an author’s life, his best works are often the ones that do not appeal to the public eye. Although Tender is the Night is not as renowned as some of his other works, it portrays an accurate depiction of the changes in modernism during the early 1900’s in American society. F. Scott Fitzgerald was able to incorporate his thoughts on a more personal level while writing Tender is the Night by using aspects from his own life in creating the characters and mood within his novel. Tender is the Night can be perceived as a hypothetical autobiography of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The background of Fitzgerald’s life is constantly used as a standard by which Dick and Nicole Diver are based on. Dick happens to be an accomplished psychiatrist. Interesting enough, Zelda Fitzgerald, F.