I. Summary “[The] Swiss Sanatorium Society is a fabrication, and its very foundations have compromised its goodness,” states Linda De Roche in her article explaining the misconceptions behind the sanatoriums that the character Nicole Diver, from the novel “Tender Is” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Night” and Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald’s wife, experienced during their rehabilitation (De Roche 50). The article links this to the misconceptions the public has received about the mentioned sanatoriums in Switzerland. Sanatoriums, according to De Roche's research, created an atmosphere for the mentally ill without subjecting them to mental asylums, which gained a terrible reputation for pain and treatments that resembled torture. As a result, technological advances produced a “railroad extension” and a tide of “health tourists” that flooded Switzerland, which “prepared [the country] to become the sanatorium of the world” (De Roche 52). The author explains that Switzerland, aided by the industrial age, became an ideal residence for those seeking a place embodying a healthy atmosphere. People from all over the world can enjoy the health benefits of Swiss sanatoriums. however, only a small group of people could afford these health clinics. De Roche uses the history of the Swiss sanatorium to explain how it became a tool of financial gain for doctors and a disillusioned refuge for patients, as illustrated in "Tender Is the Night." » Between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, Switzerland experienced two “major cultural developments: the growth of tourism and the progress of psychiatry” which contributed to the arrival of numerous tourists looking for a place promising health, safety and above all. ..... middle of paper ...... attempt at free thought (holding Nicole as a mental hostage) and abusing the public's trust; Dick Diver and Nicole Diver are the examples used to explore the Swiss sanatorium illusion and how they hinder rather than help mental healing.III. De Roche's thesis explains how sanatoriums in Switzerland became a financial holding company for doctors and a mental purgatory for patients; To complete the connection between the story and "Tender Is the Night", De Roche should have added the description of Nicole Diver's treatment and the importance of her family's money during her stay at the Zurich sanatorium. Work cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the night. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Print. Blazek, William and Laura Rattray. Twenty-first readings of “Tender Is the Night.” Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. 50-66. eBook.