Indledning
Everybody has their own dreams to fulfill, whether it is becoming rich, famous, or be able to change a loved one. But does everyone get to live their dreams?
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” documents the life of Dexter Green, a young man from a working-class family who strives to be a part of the aristocratic world.
The short story is a story of ambition, ascension, and disappointment. Revealing the hollow reality of idealised “American Dream” and what it means to be successful through the societal rise and emotional devastation of Dexter Green.
Indholdsfortegnelse
I. What are Dexter’s Winter Dreams?
II. Who is Judy Jones?
III. What is Dexter’s relation to money and status?
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Uddrag
Judy Jones is Dexter Green first meets Judy Jones in Ch. I. after Dexter quits his job as a caddy.
Judy Jones is a young girl from the upper-class, when we first meet her, she’s eleven, she’s described as “beautifully ugly as little girls are apt to be who are destined after a few years to be inexpressibly lovely and bring no end of misery to a great number of men.”
(Ch. I col. II ll. IX-XI). We quickly learn that Judy is of ill minded nature though, when ”Miss Jones taking one of the clubs and hiffing it on the ground with violence.
For further emphasis she raised it again and was about to bring it down smartly upon the nurse’s bosom,” (Ch. I Col. III ll. XXII-XXV).
Later in life we see Judy becoming the main focus of Dexter’s attention even though she walks in and out of his life, he keeps caddying around after her waiting for her to come back to him, and even though he knows that she is running around with other men.
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