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Decorating The Performative Body In Tender Is The Night, Alyssa Q. Johnson
Decorating The Performative Body In Tender Is The Night, Alyssa Q. Johnson
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship
In Tender Is the Night (1934), Fitzgerald uses clothing and fashion to heighten the sense of time period as well as to enhance the ways in which the world, on both sides of the Atlantic, was changing. However, changes on the surface frequently do not reveal a change in underlying motivations for dress. In Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald uses clothing in symbolic ways that allow characters to perform roles to achieve their goals. Through the ways bodies are shaped in the novel, Fitzgerald reveals that clothing, shopping, and perfectly bronzed skin have the power to make great economic …