le life to the search for Daisy, and his money is a tool to help him find his love.
             Diver's attitude to money is very much a contrast to this. Money to him does not represent freedom and choice, but a bind that ties him and constricts him. Diver is conscious through the whole novel that he himself is not the financially dominant member of his marriage, but Nicole, with her seemingly endless riches. 'Tender is the Night' is written after the Wall Street Crash and during the Depression, but Fitzgerald has moved his characters away from the Depression of the United States to the French Riviera, where the Depression did not leave such a deeply imprinted mark upon society. Diver is representative of middle class America – financially secure but not in a position to spend money as Nicole does, buying from great lists, and 'everything she liked that she couldn't possibly use she bought as a present for a friend'. Instead, Dick felt 'a discrepancy between the growing luxury in which the Divers lived, and the need for display which apparently went along with it. Dick feels trapped by Nicole's money, and constantly tires to assert his independence from it, such as when he and Nicole started out together, he supported them on his few thousand a year. However, the Warren family undermined his independence, such as buying the Divers their clinic in Zurich, in order to protect Nicole. Nicole wants to own Dick, and once of the ways in which to do so is by her money ('Nicole, wanting to own him ... encouraged any slackness on his part'). People see the Divers for their money, such as Franz Gregorovious with his plans for the clinic. It is not that Dick is adverse to the concept of money and wealth, but he feels that he has become trapped by Nicole's riches (he 'had wedded a desire for money to an essentially unacquisitive nature ... he had never felt more sure of himself ... than ...