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Title: I LIKED IT AS MUCH AS I REMEMBERED
Review: I hadn't read Tender Is the Night for at least a dozen years. Maybe more. Though I thought of it as one of my favorite books, I realized when I began re-reading it that I had forgotten much of the story. The one thing that was still fresh in my mind was the sense of tragedy I associated with Dick. By that I mean, I remembered him as a tragic figure. What was the source - arrogance, impatience, fatigue, attraction to money, alcohol? All of those? None of them? I'm not sure. I am sure that Dick is an intensely personal representation of Fitzgerald himself. Tommy Barban be damned. He's a charlatan. If nothing else, I can only hope Nicole realized how much she lost when she lost Dick.
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