Tender Is the Night: Genre 1 key example

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night is a work of fiction. Fitzgerald's book is often described as a romance novel: after all, it is centered around the rise and fall of Nicole and Dick Diver's relationship, detailing their respective affairs with Rosemary Hoyt and Tommy Barban. The story was written and published and takes place after World War I but before World War II, thus belonging to a very specific literary period. Fitzgerald coined the phrase "The Jazz Age" to refer to the opulence and decadence of post-World War I, pre-Great Depression America. Meanwhile, Gertrude Stein coined "The Lost Generation" to refer to the expatriate writers and artists—like herself and Fitzgerald—who lived in France during this same period. Tender is the Night is thus considered both a piece of "Jazz Age Literature" and a product of the Lost Generation.