I. Summary“[The] Swiss Sanatorium Society is an invention and its very foundations have compromised its goodness,” claims Linda De Roche in her article in which she explains the false ideas behind the sanatoriums according to which the character Nicole Diver, from “Tender Is” by F. Scott Fitzgerald the Night” and Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald's wife, lived during their rehabilitation (De Roche 50). The article links the false ideas that public opinion has received about the mentioned sanatoriums in Switzerland. Sanatoriums, as studied by De Roche, created an atmosphere for mentally ill patients without subjecting them to psychiatric asylums, which acquired a terrible reputation for pain and treatments that resembled torture. As a result, technological advances produced “the extension of the railway” and a wave of “health tourists” flooding Switzerland, which “prepared [the country] to become the sanatorium of the world” (De Roche 52). The author explains that Switzerland, aided by the industrial era, became an ideal residence for people who were looking for a place that embodied a healthy atmosphere. People from all over the world can enjoy the health benefits provided by 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 for financial gain for doctors and a disillusioned refuge for patients, as illustrated in “Tender Is the Night. " Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, Switzerland experienced two great "cultural developments: the rise of tourism and the progress of psychiatry" which favored the arrival of many tourists in search of a place that promised health, safety and above all..... middle of paper ......attempt at free thinking (holding Nicole mentally hostage) and abuses of public trust; Dick Diver and Nicole Diver are the examples used to explore the illusion of Swiss sanatorium and the how they hinder rather than help mental healing.III. ThesisDe Roche explains how sanatoriums in Switzerland have become a financial resource for doctors and a mental purgatory for patients; to complete the connection from the story to “Tender is the Night” De Roche should have added the description of the treatment Nicole Diver received and the importance of her family's money during her stay in the Zurich sanatorium.Work cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the night. New York: Sons of Charles Scribner, 1933. Print.Blazek, William and Laura Rattray. Twenty-first reading of "Tender Is the Night".Liverpool:Liverpool University Press, 2007. 50-66. eBooks.