Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night is F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel and his most personal. It explores the marital life of the Drivers, Nicole and Dick—their union and ultimate downfall.
The characters are deeply influenced by Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, who was suffering from schizophrenia.
This lends a strong bias toward Dick's perspective and vices: his resentment toward Nicole, his guilt for feeling that way, his self-hatred for failing to meet his own ambitions and eventually turning to alcohol for an escape.
The other characters largely serve as plot devices, fading in significance next to the Drivers.
This book feels messy and raw, more like a therapy journal than a carefully structured novel. Unlike Fitzgerald's other works, which hold a window to the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age, Tender is the Night holds up a mirror to the author himself.