Winter Dreams | Tamed or Idealized: Judy Jones's Dilemma in ‘‘Winter Dreams’’
In the following essay excerpt, Quentin E. Martin examines the contradictory, yet equally unrealistic, ways in which men react to Judy Jones in ‘‘Winter Dreams.’’
In her first appearance, Judy is a ‘‘beautifully ugly’’ eleven-year-old whose behavior is unpredictable and outrageous (ordering people around, raising a golf club against her nurse). Also in this first scene she is described as ‘‘passionate’’ and ‘‘radiant,’’ and as having ‘‘vitality.’’ When she's next seen, at age twenty, she is again described as having ‘‘passionate vitality’’ (the word ‘‘passionate’’ is used three times in these first two descriptions, and later her ‘‘passionate energy’’ is noted); she gives an impression...
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