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Winter Dreams
In "Winter Dreams," Dexter feels a profound sense of loss because his dreams have disappeared. Judy Jones represented Dexter’s deepest ambition. He had coveted her since he was fourteen. His...
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One example when the narration shifts from third person limited to more of an omniscient narrator is near the end of the story: THIS STORY is not his biography, remember, although things creep...
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From the time he was a boy, Dexter was restless and discontented, reaching for a larger life than the working middle-class life into which he was born. He longed for a life of romance, beauty, and...
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One example of the narrator’s becoming an omniscient character is when Mr. Mortimer Jones shouts over a drink that Dexter—who quit his job as a caddy at the golf club earlier that day—was the best...
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"Winter Dreams" fits most into the movement of Realism, but there are aspects of the story that are arguably Regionalistic. It is difficult to make the argument for Naturalism, because Dexter is...
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Judy has just left a man because he lied to her about his (lack of) wealth. She therefore asks Dexter to be honest with her and then asks if he is poor. He replies in a forthright manner that he is...
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Judy Jones has the uncanny ability to affect the whole direction of Dexter's life according to her whims. The first time they meet, Dexter is fourteen and Judy is eleven. Dexter, who is working...
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Dexter is shown progressing from adolescence to middle age. The character of Judy tantalizes him at every stage but in a different way at each stage of his life. His version of the American dream...
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Dexter is "newer and stronger" in that he is the son of an immigrant mother and a member of the working class by birth. He is not a child of privilege; his family is not one that has built and...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story was written in 1922, and believed by Fitzgerald scholars to be the forerunner of The Great Gatsby because of its theme of class differences and how they factor...
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"Winter Dreams" can be seen as a Modernist text in a couple of ways. If we accept the premise of Modernism that the movement seeks to display a condition in which there is a "shift" between the...
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I think the way in which the themes of hopeless love and social advancement are presented in this excellent story make it clear that the troubles and hopes and ambitions that Dexter faces in this...
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At the beginning of Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams," Dexter, the main character, is a teenager who works as a caddie at the local country club golf course. He sees Judy Jones, then a...
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Dexter's dream is to gain the love of wealthy Judy Jones and the lifestyle that goes with it. She is part of the American elite and Dexter wants to live this kind of life. At the beginning of the...
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As the story progresses, one realizes that Judy Jones is primarily motivated by her desire to accumulate admirers who can deliver the validation she seeks. In approaching Dexter, Judy is motivated...
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While more parallels can be drawn between the character Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the character Dexter Green in Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams," some...
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Some of the whims that Fitzgerald describes in Judy Jones relates to her character. Her constant dismissal of men as her suitors might be one such whim. She dismisses men with disarming...
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Good question. This story is "Winter Dreams" because it is about the season after growth and possibility. That is to say, early in the story it is, symbolically, spring. The world seems...
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As a young man, Dexter is ambitious and determined. He dreams of being more than just a caddy. He has "winter dreams" of a better life. The narrator adds that he is not a snob, but he does have a...
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Much like F. Scott Fitzgerald himself, Dexter maintains the perception of the rich as possessing some magical quality; thus, he is easily motivated to fall in love with Judy in order to experience...
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Fitzgerald introduces the melodies played on the piano at a crucial point in "Winter Dreams" when Dexter encounters Judy Jones as a mature woman for the first time. The music, significantly, is...
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A distinction is made throughout this excellent story between "new" wealth achieved by someone with "questionable" roots such as Dexter Fletcher with his middle-class background and the "old"...
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Dexter’s thinking of Judy as “his own” is completely ironic because throughout most of the story, she has no real regard for him. When they first meet as children, Judy simply wants Dexter to be...
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Early in the story, after Dexter's winter daydream of becoming golf champion, he decides to stop caddying because he is too old. Fitzgerald implies that Judy Jones is at least part of the cause of...
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The spoiled little girl in question is Judy Jones some years before she grows up and captures Dexter's heart for the rest of his life. At the age of fourteen, Dexter meets Judy on the exclusive...
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From the time he first meets Judy Jones, Dexter's life is determined by what she represents to him--the romance of wealth, beauty, glamour, and excitement. He first meets her when she is a spoiled...
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In "Winter Dreams," Judy Jones is a complex character motivated by self- interest. Judy Jones's first appearance in the story displays her self- interest. She dominates her nurse, ordering her and...
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams," we follow the life of Dexter Green. The story is told in three different parts and at three different segments of Dexter's life. When he is 14 the story...
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From the time he is a poor boy caddying for rich people at the Sherry Island Country Club, Dexter's version of the American Dream is to live a life of beauty and glamour that he believes he can...
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Throughout this excellent short story we see that Dexter Green is impelled to make a success of his life through earning money and gaining the glamour and confidence of the rich, as personified in...
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In “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Judy and Dexter have a tumultuous, “seasonal” romance. Dexter is obsessed with Judy’s beauty and mysterious ways. She is a fickle lover who goes through...
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The Guide to Literary Terms defines "paradox" as "a statement that is apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really contains a possible truth."Ordinarily, when someone...
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Dexter's real reason for quitting his caddying job is that he's deeply affected by his first encounter with the young Judy, and he has to do something about these strong feelings right away: But...
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Dexter, a very ambitious 14 year-old, much like Fitzgerald's James Gatz who becomes Jay Gatsby, works diligently as a caddy to fulfill his dream of one day becoming rich and famous. However, he...
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A short story reminiscent of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and seemingly a prelude to The Great Gatsby, "Winter Dreams" is divided into six episodes. Episode I Having become a...
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Judy may be beautiful and rich, she is also cold-hearted and shallow. She loves to toy with the affections of both Dexter and the other men who fall for her. She is only interested in a particular...
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It is clear that in the second section of this great short story when we meet the grown-up version of the impatient and over-confident girl that we met at the beginning of the story that Judy Jones...
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Dexter's first meetings with Judy Jones are the impetus for his "Winter Dreams." A lowly caddy, Dexter meets the haughty little girl, all of eleven years old, on the golf course. Her...
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Both stories are seem similar at first because they are both about poor young men who fall in love with rich, unattainable, women. Both women lack real values yet both Jay Gatsby and Dexter Green...
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Fitzgerald's stories often portray young men in love with women who are beautiful, unusual, and unattainable. They are not unattainable because they are not interested in romance; in fact the...
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The questions that relate to Dexter's choices between Irene and Judy capture the possible tension between happiness and ambition. Fitzgerald makes a clear case that Dexter could have found...
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According to Trent Lorcher in his article "Lesson Plans: Modernism in Literature: Modernism is marked by a strong and intentional break with tradition. This break includes a strong reaction...
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In their initial exchange in Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams," Dexter encounters both Judy and her nurse. The nurse refers to Dexter in a subservient manner, almost as if he is a servant: "Miss Jones...
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Dexter Green changes in several very significant ways in the story. As a boy, he lives a working-class life in a working-class community, one that provides services for the wealthy people who live...
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This is such a wonderful story. All of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing evokes such clear images, and his characterization becomes very clear from his use of language. For example, as the narrator...
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At the beginning of Section 2, the narrator says that Dexter wants to possess the material accoutrements (the trappings or outward signs of success) that come with being affluent. He wanted not...
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In the very first paragraph of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams," the third person narrator indicates that Dexter Green's father "owned the second best grocery store in Black...
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I think that much of this question would be dependent on what you were able to take from the work. I think that you have to go back to the text and identify what elements were the most prominent...
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He is "successful" in making money. Evidence: "He made money." He is successful because he wants to impress people.When he first meets Judy, he is "confident. Evidence:...
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"He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves." This line from the second section of Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" describes what...
