Analysis Of Winter Dreams

Sometimes we as humans think all we need is this specific thing in our life to make us happy, but sometimes down the road we realize what we thought was really gonna make us happy, is something we wouldn 't of thought of. This is where we find our true happiness. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the story “Winter Dreams”. The main character in this story is Dexter Green. This young boy works at a golf course as a caddy and as he is working he came across this eleven year old girl who is very demanding and rich. Dexter quits his job as a caddy to go to college and starts his own laundry business. He began to finally fall out of being poor and ends up making a decent living off of this business. Dexter than joins the golf course he once worked

Now, Dexter wasn 't poor, but he wasn 't by any means rich either. Dexter saw many others who made good money. “SOME OF THE CADDIES were poor as sin and lived in oneroom 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.” (p. 1). We see in this quote that Dexter’s family has money, but it’s not what he wants. He wants more. This is where the winter dream comes into play because he has a dream. When your growing up you look at what’s around you and 9 times out of 10 we try to be like the people around us. Especially since he’s young, he sees all these older people around him with all this money and that’s what he looks

Dexter begins to fall for Judy even more and realizes how much she really means to him. Judy Jones wrapped many men around her fingers, especially because she was rich and could have almost anyone she wanted. “NEXT EVENING while he waited for her to come down-stairs, Dexter peopled the soft, deep summer room and the sun-porch that opened from it with the men who had already loved Judy Jones. He knew the sort of men they were--the men who, when he first went to college had entered from the great prep schools with graceful clothes and the deep tan of healthy summers. He had seen that, in one sense, he was better than these men. He was newer and stronger” (P. 4). We could see in this quote how many men, whether they were older or younger, were all over her. For years they would chase after her regardless of her age or theirs for that matter. But, Judy Jones had issues of her own. She was very stuck up and bratty but this is a given for the fact that she is one of the richest families around. “She simply made men conscious of the highest degree of her physical loveliness. Dexter had no desire to change her. Her deficiencies were knit up with a passionate energy that transcended and justified them.” (P. 5). Even though Judy had these attributes, Dexter didn’t want her any other