Starting from the historical background of Jazz Age, this thesis analyzes the inevitability of the promising psychiatrist Dick in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night towards self destruction from the perspective of society. Dick's failure was destined because he could not be recognized by the upper class and could not escape from the cage of his time. His fervent dreams were incompatible with his time, so he was unable to rewrite the tragic ending.
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