Winter Dreams, By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The only major shift that occurs in Dreams Deferred, happens on the last line of the poem. Hughes compares dreams to other things using similes. These similes are not instantaneous, they happen and worsen over time. i.e(Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?/Or fester like a sore). But on the last line, he compares dreams deferring to something that doesn’t need time. An

The short story, “Winter Dreams”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald holds lasting impact today, mainly for the author’s ability to weave love, desire, emotion, and the moral fiber of an individual into a story. The underlying theme is centered on how charisma can drives a person to lose sight of their true goal in life, thereby finding pleasure in selfish gain which results in eventual loss. I will develop an analysis of characterization and theme in this famed short story that is as relevant today as it was when it was written in 1922.

Fitzgerald “Winter Dreams” The entire tone of ‘Winter Dreams’ was nostalgic and wistful. His past memories permeated throughout the story. Dexter tried very hard to forget his humble beginnings. He was on a mission to disregard the recollections of his immigrant mother, and grocer father.

The repercussions of attaining or lacking money changes based on the situation of the person possessing it . One could use money as an instrument to create happiness in spite of its vile nature. On the other hand one could be corrupted by it based on what it 's used for or the impact it has on that person 's character. Based on my personal experiences money has always been the one factor that restrains my family from experiencing constant happiness. But that 's not necessarily the same situation for every family. In “The Glass Castle” the Walls family drifted further apart in result of coming across money. The glass castle was an exciting book with a very unique and adventure seeking family. Rex Walls sand Rose Mary Walls were the parents of Jeanette, Lori, and Brian Walls. Initially the family was poor but over time their wealth would increase and decrease creating a series of complications that the family had to face. While encountering wealth, due to the passing away of Rose Mary’s mother who left her a large house in Phoenix and some money, the family felt out of place because they 've become so accustomed to their lifestyle of struggling. “City life was getting to dad. “I’m starting to feel like a rat in a maze,” he told me. He hated the way everything in Phoenix was so organized, with time cards, bank accounts, telephone bills, parking meters, tax forms, alarm clocks, PTA meetings, and pollsters knocking on the door and prying into your affairs.” (106) Their father

The Holocaust was an extremely difficult time for anyone that went into a concentration camp, and family can become one of the most important aspects of life when staying in one. Elie Wiesel delineates the events he experiences during his time with his father in the multiple concentration camps he travels to. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel portrays the recurring theme importance of family throughout certain characters in the story. Through the characters: Shlomo, Stein, and Elie, Wiesel shows the importance of family as a repetitive theme. Shlomo, Elie’s father, demonstrates the importance of family by supporting Elie through, possibly, one of the hardest times of Elie’s life.

Within Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, religion is an ever present component to the novel. This is prevalent within Inman, Ada and Monroe, Swimmer, and the mountain town itself. At times, characters will present aspects of religion that do not coincide with the common Christian beliefs within Cold Mountain, such as Monroe’s teachings or Swimmer’s own religion as opposed to Christianity. Each religious person or reference within the story creates a sense of differentiating views as well as an introduction to multiple perspectives of religion, self, and action.

Short stories have fully developed themes but appear significantly shorter and less elaborate than novels. A similar theme found in short stories “Winter Dreams” written by Scott F. Fitzgerald and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner included the social and environmental influences that encouraged and controlled the character’s life and decisions. In “Winter Dreams”, the main protagonist-- Dexter-- fell into a fixation over a young, whimsical blueblood, Judy Jones. His obsession led him to believe that Judy Jones reciprocated his feelings for her, leaving him bare and mortal-- despite prior beliefs. Following her father’s death, Miss Emily fell into a dark obscurity due to the pressure and compulsion of having to carry on the honorable family name. While using a unique point of view (first person peripheral), “A Rose for Emily” followed a mysterious and desirable woman named Miss Emily as her hometown tried to understand her peculiar ways and began to find her disgraceful. By comparing and contrasting these two literary pieces, a similar organization-- including the writers’ purpose and themes-- should become clear. By using literary devices-- such as point of view, dramatic irony, detail, and figurative language-- Scott F. Fitzgerald and William Faulkner conducted two short stories similar in aim and reasoning, probable for contrasting and comparing elements within the parallel writings.

One of the points that is consistently brought up in Toni Morrison’s Paradise is that of the all black town “Ruby”. Paradise uses the setting of Oklahoma to discuss how many black towns are shaped by past history and religion. While the town in this novel is fictional, there have been real all black towns in the United States, and it seems that these towns influenced many aspects of the town Ruby, which is why it is so easy to imagine that the story could actually be real. Many authors have written in general about the novel, and specifically about the town within it.

The early 20th century saw rapid technological change, driven by the demands of the war. Some writers responded to this by experimenting with unconventional language and structure. The era was called Modernism. Fitzgerald was excited by the Modernist writing style however he still wanted to create something new. He merged poetic Romanticism with the sparse style of the Modernists and incorporated advertising slogans and slang.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” is a short story about a young middle-class boy named Dexter and how his obsession to live his ideal life of being rich and famous, became the obstacle that prevented his happiness. He falls victim to his own illusions, which he associates with a spoiled rich girl named Judy, because of his inability to self-sufficiently identify his self-worth. The intro explains Dexter’s fixation of status when the narrator says, “Some of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses [...…] but Dexter Green's father owned the second-best grocery store in Black Bear.”

Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short a short story about Dexter Green told from the third person point of view. Fitzgerald is a very recognisable figure in american literature. Fitzgerald success on his first novel allowed him to marry the love of his life Zelda. .Fitzgerald like to set his stories among the glamor of the upper class in America during the jazz age. He wrote his stories and novels during this time period and that is why they are set then.” F. Scott Fitzgerald eagerly embraced his newly minted celebrity status and embarked on an extravagant lifestyle that earned him a reputation as a playboy and hindered his reputation as a serious literary writer”(Biography.com) .He traces the path to success that people try

“Winter Dreams,” The Great Gatsby and Josephine Stories present the overview of Fitzgerald’s observation and analysis of the flapper and complete cycle of Fitzgerald’s cultural production. What Fitzgerald created, developed and was famous for during his lifetime finds the postulate and final explanation in the collection of short stories Basil and Josephine Stories. This collection reflects on the traits Fitzgerald observed in his female characters, namely: “the fact that women's worth and social status are defined by the men they are associated with, and the concept of emotional bankruptcy” and encircles the female characters of “Winter Dreams” and The Great Gatsby (“The Duality of the New Woman”). “Winter Dreams” is the story about fallen ideals of the male protagonist Dexter Green which are symbolised through the main female protagonist, Judy Jones, who is used as “a symbol not only of a new order, but also of social disorder and conflict” (Sanderson 143).

The aim of this paper is to examine the elements of modernism in The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Sons and Lovers by D.H Lawrence and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

Robert Frost said many times throughout his life that all men share a common bond. In his poem “The Tuft of Flowers” he analyzes the potential of such a bond, in first person. Frost turns an everyday common job, into discovering a common bond with another laborer. The author uses a comparison between aloneness with a sense of understanding to demonstrate his theme of unity between two men. In another one of Frost’s poems “Birches” he imagines walking through the woods looking at all the trees, and seeing the top bending towards the ground. When he sees this he imagines they are bending from kids swinging on them, rather then what is really happening to them. It can be analyzed that Frost had a very definitive appreciation for nature, and a very broad imagination.

The great debate of whether the world will end in a fiery ball of destruction or a frozen wasteland has baffled the minds of many people. A man named Robert Frost has written a poem called "Fire and Ice" that describes his thoughts on how he would prefer to leave this world. Upon reading this poem, the reader can derive two distinct meanings of fire and ice; one being of actual fire and ice destroying the world, and the other having symbols for the fire and ice, such as fire being desire or passion and ice being hatred and deceit. Although this poem is one of his shortest poems with only nine lines, it is also one of the most famous works that he has ever created.