Dick Diver
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Dick Diver is a charismatic but ultimately tragic American psychiatrist whose personal and professional decline forms the emotional core of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "Tender Is the Night."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dick Diver canonical | 7 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| adaptationAppearance | film adaptations of Tender Is the Night ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Tender Is the Night ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | Lost Generation literature ⓘ |
| characterArc |
personal decline
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professional decline ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charismatic
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charming ⓘ intelligent ⓘ |
| characterType | tragic hero ⓘ |
| creator | F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Tender Is the Night ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | introduced in the 1934 novel Tender Is the Night ⓘ |
| genre | modernist literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most complex male protagonists ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Rosemary Hoyt ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| meetsSpouseAt | Swiss psychiatric clinic ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | emotional core of Tender Is the Night ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | psychiatrist ⓘ |
| personalityChange | from confident and disciplined to disillusioned and self-destructive ⓘ |
| professionContext | works at a Swiss psychiatric clinic ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork | Charles Scribner's Sons ⓘ |
| relationshipToNicole | psychiatrist-patient relationship turned marriage ⓘ |
| relationshipToRosemaryHoyt | romantic involvement ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of Tender Is the Night ⓘ |
| settingAssociation |
Europe in the interwar period
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French Riviera ⓘ |
| spouse | Nicole Diver ⓘ |
| spouseBackground | former psychiatric patient ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | heiress ⓘ |
| symbolism |
corruption of talent by wealth and privilege
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decline of the Jazz Age ideal ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
American expatriates in Europe
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alcoholism ⓘ class and wealth ⓘ disillusionment ⓘ loss of idealism ⓘ marital breakdown ⓘ mental illness ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction |
1920s
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early 1930s ⓘ |
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