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As I was reading the story “ Winter Dreams” based on Dexter’s words and actions I assumed that the purpose of the short story was about how Dexter is in love with a girl named Judy Jones but I realized that there is more to the story. Dexter loses all that was left of his dreams about having the lovable and romantic lavish life of the upper class society. The story circles around how he thinks Judy is beautiful and wants a life with her to live that good life. “I'm more beautiful than anybody else ,” she brazenly asserts, “why can't I be happy?”(Fitzgerald 499). Judy is a woman who is very beautiful and comes from a wealthy family.“ Some of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green’s father owned the second best grocery-store in Black Bear—the best one was “The Hub,” patronized by the wealthy people from Sherry Island—and Dexter caddied only for pocket- money”(Fitzgerald 488) . Mr. Mortimer Jones who is Judy’s father is among the wealthiest people who golf. A quote I found interesting that the narrator included in the text that correlates with Dexter’s aspirations is “ But do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people--he wanted the glittering things themselves. Often he reached out

for the best without knowing why he wanted it--and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges ” (Fitzgerald 491). Judy is what Dexter has ever desired in his life. "Isn't she —a pretty girl, any more?" "Isn't she—a pretty girl, any more? Oh, she's all right" (Fitzgerald 502). By the end of the text , Dexter is mortified because he realizes that his dream is lost because he finds out that Judy's looks have gone away and she is in a miserable marriage. Dexter's life was solely revolving around his illusion of the wealthy lifestyle. Dexter's vision did not die because the woman he loved was married, it was because he had no chance of being able to get with her. His desires for Judy simply disappeared and all hope went out the window. I believe that he came to realize his lost dream seven years after leaving Minnesota because knowing she is married to someone else most likely made him realize that he will really never get that chance to be with who he truly loves.

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