令人颓丧而想离席的华宴——评菲茨杰拉德的《夜色温柔》

The Sad Grand Banquet That Makes One Want to Quit——On Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night

对菲茨杰拉德的《夜色温柔》的研究,国内尚未引起足够重视,既轻描淡写,对文本的理解也存在偏差。事实上,既是病人又是妻子的富翁之女尼科尔以及身处的社会环境,令病理学医生迪克难以锐意进取,身心疲惫。在尼科尔意识到可以不依赖迪克并在感情上另有所归后,他如释重负,获得了自由,如愿地选择了离去。

Less attention is paid to the study of Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night in China, which is of few words and of misunderstanding. Through scrutiny and analysis of the text, it can be seen that Nicole, the patient and wife of Dick, a psychiatrist, and the society in which Dick lived, made him lose his ambition. He was physically and spiritually tired of life. When Nicole realized that she was independent of Dick and had found another lover, he seemed to have unloaded a heavy burden and became free. He chose to leave as expected.