The Loss And Return Of Self

Tender Is the Night is a novel which is written by the outstanding spokesman of "the jazz age" - Fitzgerald, published in the 1930s in U.S.A. Overseas, the study of Tender Is the Night is up to 1000, the novel can be divided into qualitative, study art and themes those three categories; there are many articles on the theme continue to study since 1987 in China, but also from a feminist perspective and the images for research. And the hero's personality with the spirit of theoretical study, are often too simple. In this paper, compared consciously use the theory to study the spirit of Tender Is the Night hero Dick personality variation in the process, from the social and historical point of the reasons of the personality split, the study author and works between the main character's personality link.This article focuses on analysis of the American writer Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is the Night Dick hero in the complex character of conflict and division. The early years, Dick positive, active, uplifting personality and high society's worship of money, material desires indulgence, moral degeneration in a fierce conflict. He tried to use his good quality and sound effects and character to heal the whole community, trying to psychiatry as their saviors tools, generously gave their love, by the results of their patients is also the wife of Nickle defeated, virtue and talent in high society has been constantly damage. In this ugly reality and the ideal of personal conflicts, Dick had a strong inner feeling of pain and the split personality, led to his departure from more ideal track, gradually sinking into difficulties. In this self-loss in the course of his painful self-examination carried out continuously and environmental protests and finally return to self, to find the real destination.The article analyses from the following aspects of Dick's personality. The first chapter studies Dick personality development path, from one of Dick promising and full of charm and sincere people, evolved into a alcoholism, dispirited, more and more dependent on the material and abandon the cause of the people, began to lost and exile and later how to return to self; the second chapter of Dick personality variation of the main reasons is that the ideal of personal disillusionment, love the cause of the burst and the destruction; the third chapter of the author's creative motivation Fitzgerald reveals a profound and analyzes the society in 1920s, and analyses the writer and his works in the hero Dick formation of personality.Dick's experience and the experience of the author Fitzgerald is the same as an autobiographical novel. The author put his personal experience into a novel, and also the tragedy of his own outlook on life will be integrated into the novel, trying to figure the fate of the works to explore , relieved to find a way out. The author with a high degree of rational reflection of social, sharp strokes exposed the ugly social morality, tradition called for the reunification of the spiritual world, to achieve the modern sense of the "American dream."...