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Tender is the Night - Coggle Diagram

- - - - attracted to young girls; Nicole knows it
    - - not fully comitted to his profession
        
        accused of seduction of a 15-y-o gril
- - - - "she felt that she had learned something, though exactly what it was she did not know" OO
      - Dick "All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love"
    - - turning point for Dick
        
        "Do you mind if I pull down the curtain" - Dick's obsession
        
        "Almost with en effort he turned back to his two women at the table and face the whole new world in which he believed" - ch. 22 (ending)
  - - - his "heroic period"
      - ambitious, wants to be the greatest psychiatrist ever
      - wants to be loved
        
        compulsive need
    - - he replaces her father!!!
      - he is confused about his feelings for her
      - "childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world"
      - she falls in love with him --> he has feelings too --> look for a solution with Dr Dohmler
        
        "transference" must be terminated!
        
        Dohmler and Franz are aginst marrying Nicole; Dick knows that it is going to end badly
    - - Baby (Nicole's sister) wants to "buy" a doctor for Nicole
        
        Dick disapproves
      - Dick and Nicole kiss
    - - she inherits a lot of money, he doesn't care for it
        
        he doesn't wanto live on her money, but eventually he does
      - two children; after the second she suffers a relapse
        
        she buys a house on the French Riviera ; Villa Diana
        
        Dick registers the m as Mr. (not Dr.) and Mrs. Diver
        
        Tommy Braban is in love with her
    - - Dick + Mrs. Speers about Rosemery and love
      - Dick tries to work on his book: no ideas, no money, resentful of Nicole's money
      - he starts drinking ALCOHOL
        
        D loses his independence + he won't be a great psychiatrist
        
        relaxes self-discipline and self-control
        
        gin, entire bottle of wine,
      - train trip from Paris; Nicole's breakdown and jealousy
    - - D+N, Baby Warren and two Englishmen
      - Baby talks about the money she inherited and how to invest it
      - Franz's idea about opening a clinic with Dick
        
        Baby offers to buy it (good for Nicole)
        
        Dick has no money, feels that Warren sisters OWN him
        
        in the end he concedes!
    - - "She led a lonely life owning Dick who did not want to be owned"
      - Nicole's major breakdown: she risks her family's lives in a car
  - - - DICK GOES TO NEW YORK to bury his father in Virginia
        
        ship to Europe: meets the McKiscos - successful, better people
        
        Rome: he meets Rosemary
        
        the intimacy that had "begun with a childish infatuation" is finally consummated
        
        Dick gets drunk with Collis Clay; starts a fight, refuses to pay the taxi driver the full fare... goes to jail; DOWNFALL
        
        Baby helps him
        
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- - - - incest motif: "She was nine and very fair and exquisitely made like Nicole, and in the past Dick had worried about that" about Topsy
        
        he is worried he will become sexually attracted to his daughter
        
        Nicole senses his problem and is disturbed by his "almost unnatural interest with children"