Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night

by

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The young Hollywood film actress is incredibly beautiful and symbolizes the hope and innocence of the younger generation. She is completely devoted to her mother, Mrs. Speers, who has raised Rosemary to be independent and ambitious. At the beginning of the novel, Rosemary is a little precocious—having only been famous and successful for six months—and she desires constant excitement. She is charmed, therefore, when falling in with a fashionable crowd of American expatriates when holidaying with her mother on the French Riviera: Dick and Nicole Diver and Abe and Mary North. Rosemary adores the Divers, admiring Nicole for her beauty and wisdom and falling madly in love with Dick within a matter of minutes. She is initiated into the adult world, beyond her mother’s meticulous care, when traveling with them to Paris. It is here that she experiences their world of lavish parties and excessive drinking. Determined to seduce Dick, Rosemary encapsulates a series of contradictions—she is both pure and sexual, reckless and calculated, confident and self-conscious. Ever the actress, Rosemary approaches her whole life as if it were a film or show, throwing herself into her various performances, observing others closely and carefully curating her character depending on the situation. After her brief and wonderful romance with Dick—which he calls off after encountering a horrifying glimpse of Nicole’s illness—Rosemary gradually grows successful in the world of Hollywood.

Rosemary Hoyt Quotes in Tender Is the Night

The Tender Is the Night quotes below are all either spoken by Rosemary Hoyt or refer to Rosemary Hoyt. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Excess, Destruction, and the Failed American Dream Theme Icon
).
Book 1, Chapter 1 Quotes

Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet, and shining, the color of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

Related Characters: Rosemary Hoyt
Page Number: 4
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 4 Quotes

Her naïveté responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world’s bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren)
Page Number: 26
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 9 Quotes

“You were brought up to work—not especially to marry. Now you’ve found your first nut to crack and it’s a good nut—go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him—whatever happens it can’t spoil you because economically you’re a boy, not a girl.”

Related Characters: Mrs. Elsie Speers (speaker), Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren)
Page Number: 51
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 12 Quotes

Nicole was the product of much ingenuity and toil. For her sake trains began their run at Chicago and traversed the round belly of the continent to California; chicle factories fumed and link belts grew link by link in factories; men mixed toothpaste in vats and drew mouthwash out of copper hogsheads; girls canned tomatoes quickly in August or worked rudely at the Five-and-Tens on Christmas Eve; half-breed Indians toiled on Brazilian coffee plantations and dreamers were muscled out of patent rights in new tractors—these were some of the people who gave a tithe to Nicole, and as the whole system swayed and thundered onward it lent a feverish bloom to such processes of hers as wholesale buying, like the flush of a fireman’s face holding his post before a spreading blaze. She illustrated very simple principles, containing in herself her own doom, but illustrated them so accurately that there was grace in the procedure.”

Related Characters: Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren)
Page Number: 89
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 17 Quotes

They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren), Mrs. Elsie Speers
Page Number: 95
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 19 Quotes

They stood in an uncomfortable little group weighted down by Abe’s gigantic presence: he lay athwart them like the wreck of a galleon, dominating with his presence his own weakness and self-indulgence, his narrowness and bitterness. All of them were conscious of the solemn dignity that flowed from him, of his achievement, fragmentary, suggestive and surpassed. But they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

Related Characters: Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren), Abe North, Mary North
Page Number: 105
Explanation and Analysis:

However, everything had happened—Abe’s departure and Mary’s impending departure for Salzburg this afternoon had ended the time in Paris. Or perhaps the shots, the concussions that had finished God knew what dark matter, had terminated it. The shots had entered into all their lives: echoes of violence followed them out onto the pavement where two porters held a post-mortem beside them as they waited for a taxi.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren), Abe North, Mary North, Maria Wallis
Page Number: 109
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 20 Quotes

Only the image of a third person, even a vanished one, entering into his relation with Rosemary was needed to throw him off his balance and send through him waves of pain, misery, desire, desperation. The vividly pictured hand on Rosemary’s cheek, the quicker breath, the white excitement of the event viewed from outside, the inviolable secret warmth within.

—Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?

—Please do. It’s too light in here.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Collis Clay, Hillis
Related Symbols: The Blinds in the Train
Page Number: 113
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 21 Quotes

“Look, I’m in an extraordinary condition about you. When a child can disturb a middle-aged gent—things get difficult.”

“You’re not middle-aged, Dick—you’re the youngest person in the world.”

Related Characters: Dick Diver (speaker), Rosemary Hoyt (speaker)
Page Number: 119
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 25 Quotes

“Look here, you mustn’t get upset over this—it’s only some nigger scrap.”

Related Characters: Dick Diver (speaker), Rosemary Hoyt, Abe North, Jules Peterson
Page Number: 141
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 2, Chapter 20 Quotes

For three years Dick had been the ideal by which Rosemary measured other men and inevitably his stature had increased to heroic size. She did not want him to be like other men, yet here were the same exigent demands, as if he wanted to take some of herself away, carry it off in his pocket.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt
Page Number: 274
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 3, Chapter 7 Quotes

For what might occur thereafter she had no anxiety—she suspected that that would be the lifting of a burden, an unblinding of eyes. Nicole had been designed for change, for flight, with money as fins and wings. The new state of things would be no more than if a racing chassis, concealed for years under the body of a family limousine, should be stripped to its original self. Nicole could feel the fresh breeze already—the wrench it was she feared, and the dark manner of its coming.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren)
Page Number: 357
Explanation and Analysis:
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Rosemary Hoyt Quotes in Tender Is the Night

The Tender Is the Night quotes below are all either spoken by Rosemary Hoyt or refer to Rosemary Hoyt. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Excess, Destruction, and the Failed American Dream Theme Icon
).
Book 1, Chapter 1 Quotes

Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet, and shining, the color of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

Related Characters: Rosemary Hoyt
Page Number: 4
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 4 Quotes

Her naïveté responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world’s bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren)
Page Number: 26
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 9 Quotes

“You were brought up to work—not especially to marry. Now you’ve found your first nut to crack and it’s a good nut—go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him—whatever happens it can’t spoil you because economically you’re a boy, not a girl.”

Related Characters: Mrs. Elsie Speers (speaker), Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren)
Page Number: 51
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 12 Quotes

Nicole was the product of much ingenuity and toil. For her sake trains began their run at Chicago and traversed the round belly of the continent to California; chicle factories fumed and link belts grew link by link in factories; men mixed toothpaste in vats and drew mouthwash out of copper hogsheads; girls canned tomatoes quickly in August or worked rudely at the Five-and-Tens on Christmas Eve; half-breed Indians toiled on Brazilian coffee plantations and dreamers were muscled out of patent rights in new tractors—these were some of the people who gave a tithe to Nicole, and as the whole system swayed and thundered onward it lent a feverish bloom to such processes of hers as wholesale buying, like the flush of a fireman’s face holding his post before a spreading blaze. She illustrated very simple principles, containing in herself her own doom, but illustrated them so accurately that there was grace in the procedure.”

Related Characters: Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren)
Page Number: 89
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 17 Quotes

They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren), Mrs. Elsie Speers
Page Number: 95
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 19 Quotes

They stood in an uncomfortable little group weighted down by Abe’s gigantic presence: he lay athwart them like the wreck of a galleon, dominating with his presence his own weakness and self-indulgence, his narrowness and bitterness. All of them were conscious of the solemn dignity that flowed from him, of his achievement, fragmentary, suggestive and surpassed. But they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

Related Characters: Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren), Abe North, Mary North
Page Number: 105
Explanation and Analysis:

However, everything had happened—Abe’s departure and Mary’s impending departure for Salzburg this afternoon had ended the time in Paris. Or perhaps the shots, the concussions that had finished God knew what dark matter, had terminated it. The shots had entered into all their lives: echoes of violence followed them out onto the pavement where two porters held a post-mortem beside them as they waited for a taxi.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren), Abe North, Mary North, Maria Wallis
Page Number: 109
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 20 Quotes

Only the image of a third person, even a vanished one, entering into his relation with Rosemary was needed to throw him off his balance and send through him waves of pain, misery, desire, desperation. The vividly pictured hand on Rosemary’s cheek, the quicker breath, the white excitement of the event viewed from outside, the inviolable secret warmth within.

—Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?

—Please do. It’s too light in here.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Collis Clay, Hillis
Related Symbols: The Blinds in the Train
Page Number: 113
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 21 Quotes

“Look, I’m in an extraordinary condition about you. When a child can disturb a middle-aged gent—things get difficult.”

“You’re not middle-aged, Dick—you’re the youngest person in the world.”

Related Characters: Dick Diver (speaker), Rosemary Hoyt (speaker)
Page Number: 119
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 25 Quotes

“Look here, you mustn’t get upset over this—it’s only some nigger scrap.”

Related Characters: Dick Diver (speaker), Rosemary Hoyt, Abe North, Jules Peterson
Page Number: 141
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 2, Chapter 20 Quotes

For three years Dick had been the ideal by which Rosemary measured other men and inevitably his stature had increased to heroic size. She did not want him to be like other men, yet here were the same exigent demands, as if he wanted to take some of herself away, carry it off in his pocket.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt
Page Number: 274
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 3, Chapter 7 Quotes

For what might occur thereafter she had no anxiety—she suspected that that would be the lifting of a burden, an unblinding of eyes. Nicole had been designed for change, for flight, with money as fins and wings. The new state of things would be no more than if a racing chassis, concealed for years under the body of a family limousine, should be stripped to its original self. Nicole could feel the fresh breeze already—the wrench it was she feared, and the dark manner of its coming.

Related Characters: Dick Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Nicole Diver (Nicole Warren)
Page Number: 357
Explanation and Analysis: