Entry #7

Pgs. 134-162
The story of Nicole Warren and Dick Diver continues. Dick is getting very close to Nicole, and not just as her doctor. He really likes her. They spend time together. They take walks and laugh together. But when the director of the asylum wants to take Dick on as a full doctor working there, the truth gets out and both the director and the other doctor there tell him the best thing he should do is get away from her because falling in love with a half-right girl isn't the best thing for a healthy, handsome man. And so he does. He leaves Zürich and Nicole is slightly heartbroken. Later, he sees her in a cable car to a resort and she invites him to dinner with her and her sister and some family acquaintances. She is much better, practically normal. He doesn't want to fall in love with her though. But she asks him for a chance. They kiss and he does fall for her. Dick talks to her sister about marrying her and her sister doesn't like the idea so much because Dick doesn't have as much money as Nicole and her family does. But she eventually agrees. Dick and Nicole are a happy couple. Nicole has two children, a boy and a girl. They are all very happy. And they move to the Riviera and open a small hotel (the beginnings of the famous hotel in the beginning of the book).

Possible Thesis #1
Fitzgerald's life parallels those of his main characters, he uses his books to create his own biography as to abolish the mainstream thought that a man must be richer, and more powerful than a woman he chooses to marry, since he himself, broke this stereotype. He brings hope to the quiet, handsome, a-little-less-than-well-of men of his time.
pg. 121:

Mon Capitaine:
I thought when I saw you in your uniform you were so handsome. Then I thought Je m'en fiche French too and German. You thought I was pretty too but I've has that before and a long time I've stood it. If you come here again with that attitude base and criminal and not even faintly what I had been taught to associate with the rôle of gentleman then heaven help you. However you seem quieter than the others, all soft like a big cat. I have only gotten to like boys who are rather sissies. Are you a sissy? There were some somewhere...

Possible Thesis #2
F. Scott Fitzgerald narrates as the characters and as the author. But like real life, he keeps his characters in the dark so as to keep the storyline going. In doing so he relates to the world that if everyone knew everything, life would have no thrill.
pg. 157:
Dick was furious-Miss Warren had known he had a bicycle with him; yet she had so phrased her note that it was impossible to refuse. Throw us together! Sweet propinquity and the Warren money!
He was wrong; Baby Warren had no such intentions. She had looked Dick over with worldly eyes, she had measured him with the warped rule of an Anglophile and found him wanting-in spite of the fact that she found him toothsome. But for her he was too "intellectual" and she pigeonholed him with a shabby-snobby crowd she had once known in London-he put himself out too much to be really of the correct stuff. She could not see how he could be made into her idea of an aristocrat.