You have it all: a beautiful wife and two healthy children. Your friends adore you, your colleagues respect you, and you never, ever have to worry about money. You have everything.

Unfortunately, under the surface, life is very different. Your wife is deeply, deeply troubled. Your children are unusually detached. Your friends regularly give you terrible counsel. Your job security depends on your wife’s family wealth.

Welcome to what may be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best book, Tender is the Night. He published it in 1934 after he’d experienced both great success and surprising failure. These are the words of a man chastened by the world.

In this episode of Island Idylls, Barry and Aaron are back at it, discussing the life of the rich, the difficulties of marriage, and the sad reality that happiness is never found easily.