Tender is the night夜色温柔.doc

Book Report Tender Is The Night 系　　　　　 别： 外 语 系 专业名称： 英 语 指 导 老 师： 陈碧梅老师 学生姓名： 陈 静 妍 学　　　　 　号： 完成日期：2013年11月 Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender Is the Night was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald since 1925 and first published in Scribners Magazine in 1934 in four issues; the copy I read was rewrote by Smith Barney and reprinted in Beijing in September, 2007. F. Scott Fitzgerald(September 24, 1896-December 21, 1940), was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University. He was an American author of novels and short stories. He published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. The same year he married Zelda, a patient admitted to a psychiatric clinic for treatment of schizophrenia in 1930. During his lifetime, he mainly wrote five novels, with the last one not finished. Tender Is the Night was his fourth and final completed novel. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. Among his works, The Great Gatsby is his masterpiece. His works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and also considered as a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s. Tender Is the Night is a romantic realism story concluded three books, Book One, Book Two, and Book Three. The whole story was originated from the author’s real life. Dick and Nicole, the miserable and declining couple, seemed like himself and his wife. Dick, himself, actually represented most of the Americans at that time. They chasing after the so-call “American dream”, in fact, it is just for money, success and immigration in Jazz Age. The story is set in that background, beginning on the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, near the city of Cannes on one June morning in 1925. The author through depicting the life-experience of Dick, a doctor as well as the male protagonist, reflected the erosion of social