Similarities Between Dick Diver and Abe North in Tender is the Night Es

Similarities Between whoreson loon and Abe North in Tender is the Night Dick Diver and Abe North are characters in F. Scott Fitzgeralds fiction, Tender is the Night. As presented in the beginning of the novel, Dick Diver and Abe North did not seem to support much in common. As the character of Dick Diver developed, the reviewer found the characters to be parallel to each other. There were numerous unhoped similarities as the novel feelered. The presentation of Abe Norths character served as a poke to the fate of Dick Diver(Stern, 117). The characters deterioration, relationships with their wives, and their effects on the other characters were about of the main similarities between Dick Diver and Abe North. At the start of the novel the characters of Dick Diver and Abe North seemed to contrast. Dick was hospitable and admired by many. Meanwhile, Abe had already deteriorated in character. The beginning(a) thing that was said about Abe was negative. When Abe first appeared M rs. McKisco conveyed her opinion of him to Rosemary, Well, hes a rotten musician. (Fitzgerald, 8). This statement was related to the lack of progress in Abes profession as clarified by Brady, he was a musician who after a brilliant and precocious start had make up nothing for seven years. (Fitzgerald, 33). Proceeding from these descriptions, Abe character was reduced to a mournful drunkard. However, Abe was not always the loser as Nicole pointed out, Abe used to be so nice... So nice. Long ago-when Dick and I were first married. If only you had know him then. (Fitzgerald, 99). At this point of the novel it seems that Dick has control of his life in comparison to Abe North. Yet, Dicks own career was stagnant. Unlike Abe howe... ...gradation were parallel. A comment do by Nicole in the beginning of the novel now appears to be a forecast on the fate of Dick and Abe, So many heady men go to pieces nowadays. (Fitzgerald, 99). Works Cited and Consulted Bruccoli, Matthew J. The Comp osition of Tender Is the Night. Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press, 1963. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. stark naked York Collier Books. 1982. Grenberg, Bruce L. Fitzgeralds Figured Curtain Personality and History in Tender Is the Night. In lively Essays on F. Scott Fitzgeralds Tender Is the Night, ed. Milton R. Stern. Boston G. K. Hall, 1986. LaHood, Marvin J., ed. Tender Is the Night Essays in Criticism. Bloomington indium University Press, 1969. Stern, Milton R., ed. Critical Essays on F. Scott Fitzgeralds Tender Is the Night. Boston Hall, 1986.