Winter Dreams (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Several years before and after World War I
- Setting: Black Bear Lake, Minnesota, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Dexter Green, Judy Jones, Devlin
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Emotions, Business or business people, Success or failure, Separation, Time
- Locales: New York, NY, Minnesota
The Story
F. Scott Fitzgerald divides “Winter Dreams” into six episodes. In the first, fourteen-year-old Dexter Green, whose father owns the “second best” grocery store in Black Bear Lake, Minnesota, has been earning thirty dollars a month pocket money caddying at the Sherry Island Golf Club. He is responsible and honest, touted by at least one wealthy patron as the “best caddy in the club.” His decision to quit his job comes suddenly—proclaimed, to incredulous protests, to be the result of his having got “too old.” Such public excuse masks the real and...
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