Winter Dreams Book Report

     Dexter in the story started off as a very young boy who worked as a caddy at a golf course. There he met Miss Jones for the very first time. Judy Jones was a beautiful, young woman who came from a glittery family, but was also very cunning with her “preposterous smile” . Dexter was very

Later on Donnelly starts to talk about popular culture and its influences on the show. She says, “Popular culture thrives on explanation as a way of abating fears of violence and fears of Otherness” (Donnelly 21) which season seven and eight are all about. Dexter searches constantly for a real reason to explain why he is the way he is. He wants a better understanding of himself to make himself fit in. Morals have been developed to single out the abnormal and throughout his whole life Dexter was singled out. The consumers of the show can identify a killer as a monster, making the person less than human in our minds. Therefore if Dexter thought the same as us; killing a killer is the same as squishing a bug because both are lesser than humans and their lives do not make an impact on ours. Dexter realizes in season eight that he is an even worse monster that he believed himself to be.

For example, in 2010 17-year-old, Andrew Conley strangled his 10-year-old brother, Connor Conley, to death with his bare hands. After confessing to murder of his brother he told investigators, “he identifies with Dexter” (Thompson). Showtime drama, DEXTER, is about a man who lives a double life as a blood spatter analyst within the Miami Police Department and a serial killer. When taken to court Conley confessed to killing his brother and said, “he had an uncontrollable urge for murder and wanted to model himself after the TV serial killer Dexter…I feel just like him” (Thompson). It is quite startling to hear a 17-year-old say he identifies with a serial killer. Also, during trial Andrew stated, the day after he killed Connor he was fighting

Imagine having everything possible in life. Poof! It is gone. That is the basis of a classic tale written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, having everything at once, then watching it slip. “Winter Dreams” was published in Metropolitan Magazine in 1926. Most know of F. Scott Fitzgerald for his work “The Great Gatsby” but every novel has a muse! Winter Dreams was written as almost a rough draft for The Great Gatsby. They share a common theme like most of his work such as reality versus realism and the fall of the American dream. Fitzgerald loves to write about the classic love story of a poor boy falling in love with a rich girl, as its shown when Dexter falls in love with Judy. This short story shows the characteristics of Dexter, Judy and their questionable relationship. It also illustrates the symbolism of changing seasons and depicting colors. Finally, this short story gives a theme of reality vs realism. F. Scott Fitzgerald in “Winter Dreams” summarizes sometimes no matter how hard

After season one, I am ready to proclaim, Dexter is the best television show currently on Netflix. Dexter Morgan, is the main character, played by Michael C. Hall, accompanied by Jennifer Carpenter who plays Debra Morgan, his somewhat moody little sister. He is a sociopath, a character with no human emotions, inner moral compass, and he has a devouring hunger towards blood which drives him to kill. He is a blood splatter expert who does not just solve murders; he commits them too. But he had the luck to be adopted by a police officer who understands and accepts him. We see his father in flashbacks, teaching him a moral code, which he strictly follows on an intellectual level. He was taught as a child to follow this moral code, in order to blend

Living in Miami, Dexter tell his story of how he must fake his emotions and interactions with others. Dexter has two different kinds of personality. The one he shows everyone, a helpful, smart, and hardworking man. These traits help him seem normal to everyone around him and doesn’t make people suspicious. The side of him he doesn’t show anyone is the very secretive, observant, meticulous. These traits help Dexter make sure he has the right person and understands his surrounding just in case he runs into any

Dexter Green is our main character throughout the story. Dexter is born in Keeble, a Minnesota village, but he later moves to Black Bear village, which is located 50 miles further north. He is the son of Black Bear village’s second best grocer and a Bohemian mother. Growing up in a middle class family, Dexter also works as a caddie in Sherry Island Golf Club, but unlike many of the caddies he has a reasonable life and is not poor like many of them. Dexter appears like an ambitious boy from the beginning, and with a work ethic beyond the usual for a 14 year old boy. One of his main goals in life is to advance and make a lot of money, which will elevate him up from the middle class that he has grown up in: “He wanted not association

In the beginning of the book, Dexter could be quoted saying things along the lines of “merely because I have no soul does not mean I don’t appreciate art (Lindsay 5).” Phrases such as these were included to set the stage to portray Dexter as a heartless psychopathic killer, and for the most part this completely apathetic façade held true. As the book progressed though, a few small changes could be seen in Dexter’s seemingly bulletproof persona. One major change was seen when Brandon Weiss, the serial killer mentioned before, kidnapped his family and his coworker, Detective Coulter. When Dexter found out, he threw himself in the way of danger to save them; unfortunately Coulter was dead at the scene.

Something had been taken from him” (Fitzgerald 203). Everything he has done in his life was for Judy. He was so infatuated with her that he lost his focus on why he wanted to be wealthy in the first place. He didn’t want to be surrounded by rich people, but because he was so focused on impressing Judy, he forgot all about his values. Dexter became someone he did not want to be.

Our focus on wealth and social status leaves us divided rather than united as people had hoped. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dream”, Fitzgerald shows that social status and wealth are not just an aspect of life, but barriers that people struggle to overcome. Dexter Green constantly made his decisions based on money. The only reason he caddied was “for pocket-money” (Fitzgerald 659). This resembles the American way of doing things solely for a profit. He was swayed by money and status when he decided to leave his job after meeting Judy Jones. He did not want to caddie for her, because then he could never be her equal and would lose the chance of winning her over. From the moment he met her, he let the differences between their social status and wealth separate them. Hemingway uses this to resemble the way American people let money influence our perceptions of others. America has become a materialistic society. If someone does not resemble a high social standard, then they viewed as less than. Just like Dexter, people are concerned that their financial status is what they will be judged and viewed by. He, like many people, then strived to change his place in society. Even after Dexter attended college and set up “the largest string of laundries in his section of the country” earning him a fortune, he still did not fit in the world that Judy Jones was a part of (Fitzgerald 662). This shows that the money that separated them in the beginning was not the only thing that kept them apart. Overall, Fitzgerald uses his influence as a writer to shine a light on the sad reality of wealth’s influence in American

In conclusion the desire for love and the desire for wealth is not always the key to happiness. In Dexter's case his desire or dream of love caused his nothing but misery and a broken heart.

Have you ever have felt like two completely different people? Dexter Morgan has been all of these throughout his entire life since he was little. His mother was killed in front of him when he was at a very young age. A cop named Harry Morgan had founded Dexter when he was in a pool of blood beside his mother. He taught Dexter all of these ways to not get caught. To keep his hands clean without being under someone’s radar. Dexter’s character arch is symbolic of the human struggle to move from the primitive monster to the noble and compassionate messiah.

On page 735 we see that Dexter attended a good college. This can show his desire for material success by telling the reader that Dexter wished to do good and acquire a good job that pays well. When having a job that pays well, we see the want for new things. Any new physical

Dexter Green in the story has very high ambition, which prompts him to enroll at a prestigious university in the East. He eventually ends up graduating from the university, to work diligently on mastering the cleaning trade and therefore become a successful businessman. All the while living in this life style, he has to recommit himself to more manners and apparel. This is a prime example of him being a static character

Dexter idolizes those wealthy men and does everything possible to resemble rich men. For example, he asks the best tailor in America to make a suit for him. In sum, he becomes addicted to social prestige since he believes that happiness lies in it.