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• W2927144907 abstract "S E N S U A L I T Y A S K E Y T O C H A R A C T E R I Z A T I O N I N T E N D E R I S T H E N I G H T JACQUELINE TAVERNIER-COURBIN University of Ottawa Tender is the Night is a very sensual book that both attracts and repels the reader, which may partly account for the mixed critical reception it received when it first came out. Perhaps, too, this explains why it is still not consid­ ered as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece although it is far and away his richest and most complex novel as well as his most tortured.1 Lionel Trilling has re­ marked that Fitzgerald’s description of love in the Jazz Age is “innocent of mere ‘sex’,” charged as it is with sentiment.2 Much to the contrary, sex, eroticism, and sensuality are to be found everywhere in the novel. Sensual desire and consciousness are, in fact, the most important elements which motivate the characters, further the action, and give the novel its life force. The sensual atmosphere which pervades Tender is the Night is made up of various elements, so intimately related that breaking them down from their finished form amounts to the tearing apart of a beautiful symphony. How­ ever, even music excuses analysis. Although one reacts primarily to the use of setting, symbolism, and mystery as well as to a sensual, if enforced, identifi­ cation with Dick Diver — elements which have bewildered literary critics because their appeal is to the instinctual and unreasoning self — the over­ whelming presence of physical desire deserves close examination because it is central to the novel and invites the thoughtful reader to a rather different interpretation of the characters from that normally given. This is particularly true of our understanding of Dick Diver. Not simply love, but sexual desire is constantly present in Tender is the Night. It runs as a constant undercurrent in the relationships between the characters, whether major or minor, and it is particularly focused around Nicole and Rosemary who are, throughout, the objects of male desire as well as the accidental witnesses of scenes between other characters involving sexual concerns. Sensual desire also motivates the major characters’ actions, but, in each case, the quality of desire is different and corresponds to “some submerged reality.” The more basic desire is, the more positive it appears to be, as in the case of the primitive sexual urge which brings Nicole and Tommy together. The more complex and indefinite it is, the more destrucEnglish Studies in Canada, ix, 4, December 1983 tive it becomes. Dick Diver is both the most complex character in the novel and the only one who is destroyed by his sensuality. Rosemary’s attraction to Dick is obviously sensual although, on the sur­ face, it corresponds to an inner reality which is not in itself erotic desire. Rosemary is a young girl of eighteen who has not yet been romantically involved. The only people she has been close to were her mother, who “had cultivated an idealism in [her] . .. which . .. was directed toward herself and saw the world through her eyes,” 3 producers who worked her hard, actors whom she kissed in pictures but forgot right away, and young men like Collis Clay of whom she thought but little. At eighteen there is in Rose­ mary a strong physical attraction to the other sex, as seen by her receptivity to Brady (24), as well as an idealism which needs to fix itself on a male figure that will replace her mother, her father having died when she was a child. When she meets Dick, he appears to her as “complete” with layers “of hardness in him, of self-control and of self-discipline, [which are] her own virtues,” 4 and his astonishing dharm seems to gather in the world and make it revolve around him. Therefore she immediately sees him as the ideal man, the figure by which she measures other men and finds them wanting. He seemed kind and charming — his voice promised that he would take care of her..." @default.
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