Winter Dreams Literary Analysis

Over 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 1.1 million were children and 6 million were Jewish. In the novel titled Night by Elie Wiesel, it tells about a kid name Elie Wiesel and his experience during the Holocaust. This novel will will also explain his thoughts/feelings during this tragic event. During the tragic event, Elie Wiesel lost his mother when the Holocaust started and lost his father at the end of the Holocaust. Three qualities that contributed to Wiesel’s survival was his intelligence, when he hid his left arm, his bravery, when he refused to separate from his father during the selection, and his determination, when he decided to not stop running during the flee.

     Because of Judy Jones’ infidelity, even though he knew it was going to happen, he decides to try to forget about her. As much as he tries, it is impossible for him to forget about Miss Judy Jones. He starts dating Irene Scheerer, her father knew Dexter very well and thought of him as a “Now there’s a boy” type of man. While with Irene, he agreed on that he could not have Judy Jones. He caused himself pain for no reason, he had been hurting himself and Irene by thinking of Miss Jones. Instead of him thinking about Judy Jones as being “priggish” he soon

He makes a big show of keeping his hand soft to caress her, yet also visits the local whorehouse on Saturday night. While he may strut around the ranch because of his position as the boss' son, he obviously cannot satisfy his wife and is mean, or perhaps simply detached from her. Curley beats up any man who dares to talk to her, but ironically, he rarely talks to her himself, and they spend the majority of the book looking for each other.

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." In the novel “In Cold Blood”, the author Truman Capote tells us the story of the brutal murders of 1959 in Holcomb, Kansas.In a town that was so peaceful that you could hear the birds chirp in the morning,everyone that lived in this town were really close you could almost call them all family.The two main characters play a really big part in this book because their life goals are to get rich and live the “American dream” but end up killing four people while trying to rob them.Perry has a very confusing personality,but throughout his dreams the readers are able to understand him better even though he was a murder of four perry went throughout his whole life with only a grade level education but was always interested in art and music which shows that he has a peaceful side.While his partner Dick hickock he was born into a family that wasn't poor or rich but throughout his life he feels that the world hasn't given him what he deserves and so he decide to make a mistake that will change his life forever either for the good or worse.Even as child they both turned to their dreams to get them out of the world they were living in and they would depend on their dreams to show them the path to take to reach the “amazing life” they wanted to live.

The play Snow in Midsummer, written in 1241 by Guan Hanqing created a type of theatre known as zaju. With the available sources on Hanqing’s most pronounce play written, he managed to accomplish significant meaning of Death. The play demonstrates the central theme of death during the execution of Dou E, she made three vows: First, if she is innocent, the execution will cause the blood to not be spilled on the white cloth; second, the three feet snow will cover her body; third, after her death, there will be three successive years of drought, to prove that she is unjustly dead. Dou Yi’s death symbolizes Confucius beliefs through sacrificing herself, rather than to give harm to her mother-in-law. She is willing to die in order to confront the unjust social system. In the play Snow in Midsummer, death functions as a way to achieve justice, life is the most precious aspect for a human being, but why is the character Dou Yi willing to sacrifice her own life to accomplish this task?

Accordingly, Fitzgerald uses the characters in “Winter Dreams” as a warning to his generation about how the irresponsibility and emptiness of the wild lifestyle of the 1920s could lead to their downfall.

The two main characters, Dexter and Judy, obviously have a fair enough of characterization between the two of them. Soon Fitzgerald introduced Judy’s true character with small statements such as,“At a dance one night [Judy] sat all evening in a motor-boat with a local beau, while the New Yorker searched the club for her frantically. She told the local 6 beau that she was bored with her visitor, and two days later he left” (Fitzgerald 6). A simple characterization how Judy does act after she is done with a relationship. She simply leaves the man hanging, with not another word. Toying with him, as to say, almost like she is getting a thrill from the fact that she completely abandoned this man at the dance because she was bored. Now, there is not a clear view on how this affects the men as she lead them on but it is safe to say that Ms. Judy is siren-like. That is just how she is displayed, her entire character seemed to fit the player archetype as well as the “princess” stereotype. There are people in

Crawford continues to run the store, for months after Jody dies. It is there she meets her next love interest, Tea Cake. Janie has had many suitors come calling since Jody died, but none are quite like Tea Cake. First he teaches her how to play checkers, then does the unthinkable and walks her home, at night no less. Jody would not have approved, however, Tea Cake is the opposite of Jody. While the pair have immediate chemistry, Crawford is reluctant to give away her heart and with that her freedom. Janie eventually marries Tea Cake and they have two great years together before she kills him. When Janie marries again, she does not lose her sense of self like in the other two marriages: she talks to the neighbors, wears her hair down, and works a job in the fields. Tea Cake is the closest she comes to the love in her fantasy, but every couple has their problems. Both Tea Cake and Janie are very possessive of each other, instead of her being the only object of jealousy, she also feels some too. When Janie feels that green headed monster, that is how she knows she is in love with Tea Cake, a man who does not change her, a man who does not force her to be someone she is not. Janie can only find the man of her dreams, once she has discovered who she is and what she

T.S Eliot’s poem, “The winter evening settles down” is a short, simple to read poem with several different examples of imagery. Eliot uses descriptive words, for instance, “withered leaves”, “broken blinds”, and “lonely cab-horse” (lines 7-10). He paints an extremely bleak image of a town that seems to be deserted of people. The tone of the poem plays hand-in-hand with the imagery used. This town is an unpleasant place where it has seemed to be neglected for some years now. Eliot’s use of imagery takes the reader to this deserted, torpid place; however, at the same time, his goal is to bring the life back into this grim town.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an american author with several breathtaking novels and short stories. Among his most well known pieces of literature is The Great Gatsby which is a about a rich man who is in love with a married woman. “Winter Dreams” is also another piece of literature that Fitzgerald wrote. “Winter Dreams” is about a man's dream of becoming wealthy and dream of marrying the woman he loves. These two pieces of literature are very similar in various aspects that are noticeable as the reader compares the two. The constant mention of the desire of love and the desire for luxury demonstrates that these two things are not always the key to a happy life.

Because Dexter’s life is unintentionally controlled by these dreams, he does not realize that he is being driven toward material success. He is unaware that these dreams are leading him to fall in love with the woman who stands at the core of his materialistic fantasies. His complete focus in life becomes geared toward “gaining the love of a beautiful woman who expresses the glamour and promise of the exclusive world” (Perkins). Dexter begins to strongly believe that Judy Jones is his key to unlocking the world of the rich and wealthy. By illustrating the luxurious lifestyle of Judy Jones, Fitzgerald reveals how she represents, to Dexter, what life is like for the rich and prosperous.

Michael Dorsey is a talented young actor, arrogant, stubborn and is so hard on him self and others that he could no longer find a job in his town after twenty years. After a daytime soap opera audition goes bad, Michael takes on the role of an actress Dorothy Michaels and wins the part of the audition. What was supposed to be a short-term role with the intention to raise the money to star in his roommate’s play turns into an extended contract, but when Michael falls for his cast mate Julie, complications develop that could destroy everything. And Michael eventually realizes that he is a better person as his second character Dorothy Michaels than he was as Michael Dorsey. Michael Dorsey finds it interesting as Dorothy begins to take on an independent life of her own. She is a free woman who seems sort of strange and funny at first glance, but grows on people afterwards as she begins to inspire women with her acting by standing up for what is right. Other complications begin to arise as the men which Dorothy surrounds herself with are beginning to fall in love with her such as Julie’s father and John Van Ron who is also plays the role of doctor in the play.

A child’s future is usually determined by how their parent’s raise them. Their characteristics reflect how life at home was like, if it had an impeccable effect or destroyed the child’s entire outlook on life. Usually, authors of any type of literature use their experiences in life to help inspire their writing and develop emotion to their works. Poetry is a type of literary work in which there is an intensity given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinct styles and rhythm. These distinct styles include different types of poems such as sonnets, villanelles, free verse, imagist poems, and many more. And these distinct styles are accentuated with the use of literary devices such as metaphors, similes, imagery, personification, rhyme, meter, and more. As a whole, a poem depicts emotions the author and reader’s can relate to. In the poem’s “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, and “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, we read about two different parent and child relationships. These two poems help portray the flaws and strength’s parents exhibit and how their children follow their actions and use it as a take away in their grown up lives.

The short story “Winter Dreams” was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was first seen by anyone in December of 1922 when it appeared in Metropolitan Magazine. The story also illustrates many of the same themes as “The Great Gatsby,” the greatest novel in American history. “Winter Dreams” is about a young man named “Dexter” who has desires, but thinks the only way he can have them is if he is rich. His ambition gets the best of him when he strives for everything he cannot have. When unmasked to reality, your dreams can expire instantaneously.

Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” and Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” exemplify both author’s different focus and account