Situational Irony

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender Is the Night: Situational Irony 2 key examples

Book 2, Chapter 14
Explanation and Analysis—Shell-Shock:

After a convoluted dream about war, Dick journals about the dream and ironically diagnoses himself:

He turned on his bed-lamp light and made a thorough note of it ending with the half-ironic phrase: “Non-combatant’s shell-shock.”

Book 3, Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis—Dick's Ironic Alcoholism:

In Book 3, Chapter 3, Von Cohn Morris is ironically removed from treatment for alcoholism from Franz and Dick's clinic due to Dick's consumption of alcohol:

We hand Von Cohn to you to be cured, and within a month he twice smells liquor on your breath! What kind of cure is that there?

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