The Blinds in the Train
The closed blinds in the train symbolize Rosemary’s rumored sexual promiscuity, obscuring the “light” of her supposed innocence and purity. Dick is haunted by the image of Rosemary in a locked train carriage with…
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The Sanitarium
The modern psychiatric clinic functions as a symbol of society’s cultural anxieties at the time that Fitzgerald was writing. In the novel, patients are admitted for treatment for a whole host of illnesses and nervous…
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The Bloody Bed Sheets
The bloody bed sheets, stained with Jules Peterson’s blood, symbolize the disposable nature of black lives in Tender is the Night. After Abe carelessly accuses an innocent black man of a crime he…
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