Carrying the woman from behind the man In history, women were considered property. Until thirty or forty years ago they were not given the same rights as men. Women began to challenge the idea of ​​how they should act in the early 1900s, pushing for equal rights reform. F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing, while lyrical and eloquent, represents the ideals of his time quite well. Men are always its main characters, while women are secondary characters who are ultimately responsible for the downfall of the male. Fitzgerald's downplaying of female characters is evident in “Tender is the Night.” “Tender is the Night”, a short story written in the 1930s by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a literary piece, like many of his works, which portrays the idea of ​​the “flapper” in its most ideal sense. Its main characters were mostly successful males who fell in love, only to later have that love be their tragic undoing. Fitzgerald's female characters were often portrayed as disposable and minor details of the main characters' lives, but if you look closer they produced the exact image he wanted for them. F. Scott FitzgeraldIf the public brought women out of the shadows and actually analyzed them, then they could be seen to do what was necessary to survive and thrive. They “adapt and change to ensure their necessary survival long after their men have fallen prey to personal dilemmas” (Luong, 56). Nicole and Rosemary “preserved their individuality through men and not through opposition to them” (Fitzgerald, Tender 63). They have the strength and knowledge not to conform to identities created through the men they are involved with, but rather to create their own identity. Divorce was highly looked down upon in that era, and the fact that Nicole had the courage to tell Dick that she and her children deserved better and left him is astonishing