ipl-logo

Winter Dreams Analysis

1057 Words5 Pages

Winter Dreams is a short story written by Scott Fitzgerald. The story was written in prose and it is narrated in third person. Most of the actions in the story takes place in Shelter Island which is located in New York. Dexter mention in the story that he is from Black Bear Village, but that is the only time that this place is mentioned. Dexter Green is a boy of 14 years old who works as a caddy for pocket money. His father owns the second best grocery store of Sherry Island. It seems that winter is not the best season for Dexter. During this period of time, he feels melancholic. Winter makes his hands trembles and repeat idiotic sentences. This is the perfect time to use his imagination to play golf and be the winner of all the games. Dexter …show more content…

She is now Judy Simms; unhappily married to a guy who treats her bad. He is upset when he is told that Judy is no longer beautiful. Analysis Dexter is compulsive when acting in certain way around Judy Jones. It seems that he does not want to love Judy but to possess her. His deepest regret is that he will never be able to possess Judy. He loves her and he would love her until he has gray hair and he is too old to love. However he can’t have her. This causes him deep pain exactly the same way he was experienced happiness. Judy symbolize the beauty of the age when she expresses her frustration at her loneliness – She sees her beauty as a sign of deserving great happiness. “I’m more beautiful than anybody else” why can’t I be happy? Judy fails to attain happiness because she is unable to understand what happiness is, what is requires, and what path leads her to attain it. The narrator tells the story in third person meaning that he is not a character in the story. The main theme in the story is love. We are able to see how Dexter falls deeply in love with this lady that does not have the minimum respect to others or even to herself. In some way we can say that Dexter was not in love with her, he was just obsessed with her beauty and his desire to possess her. He is a successful man, he has accomplished what he has proposed to achieve so now he has to possess Judy because he is Dexter

Show More
Related

  • Judy Bottle Research Paper

    542 Words  | 3 Pages

    Judy felt like her needs were met and felt loved during her childhood. Judy was taught right from wrong by examples. Her punishments included removal of privileges and grounding. Her punishments were never excessive or abusive. Judy moved from Ohio to Edwardsville Illinois when she was in junior high.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Janie In Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

    384 Words  | 2 Pages

    In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is a young woman who struggles to find her identity. Janie Separates her exterior life from her interior life by keeping certain thoughts and emotions inside her head, and she reconciles this by while presenting the proper woman society expects her to be. Janie also silently protests to those expectations by acting against what people require of her, both emotionally and physically. When Janie’s rude and abusive husband, Joe, dies, Janie is glad because she is finally free from him.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Winter Dreams

    1211 Words  | 5 Pages

    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.

    Read More

  • F Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams Quotes

    1396 Words  | 6 Pages

    F. Scott Fitzgerald in the short story “Winter Dreams” uses the characters Judy and Dexter to illustrate the time passing and life moving on. At the beginning of the short story Dexter is shown as a little kid of about the age of fourteen.

    Read More

  • Winter Dreams Character Analysis Essay

    622 Words  | 3 Pages

    Winter Dreams By F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short-story telling of a 14 year-old caddy named Dexter Green. In this narrative Dexter meet Judy Jones while working at his golf course. As the story continues on, Dexter becomes severely infatuated by Judy. The desire to be hers overcomes him so greatly, he works his way to wealth to be in the same social class as her, hoping to catch her attention and marry her someday. However Judy may be beautifully the outside as she ages, but her insides say differently.

    Read More

  • Common Themes In Alfred Hitchcock's Film Vertigo

    539 Words  | 3 Pages

    Scottie wants so badly for her to be Madeline that he dresses Judy up as her and takes her to places where he and Madeline had been even though Judy herself is an absolute antithesis of everything Madeline was. Despite her discomfort with these actions, she eventually gives in. Although, Scottie’s obsession with Madeline scares her, Judy’s need to be loved by him allows her to submit herself to his mania and give him control over her. Her eventual death is caused her own submission to Scottie.

    Read More

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie's Expectations

    1166 Words  | 5 Pages

    In the book “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, was about how girl named Janie Crawford who had a lot of changes in her life when she met with other important people. By her going through these events she is able to grow as a person and find what true love and happiness is. Also Janie Crawford married three different persons and each of everyone she learn something about her delf and the things she didnt want in her life. A Lot of people expect different things for Janie, but Janie's responses to these expectations is very different , she does the unexpected. I think Janie learns what true love and happiness is from the different relationships she had and she changed as an individual by becoming a more confident and independent.

    Read More

  • Winter Dreams American Dream

    1044 Words  | 5 Pages

    However, in “Winter Dreams”, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes diction, juxtaposition, defeated language, and symbolism to inform his readers that though many yearn for the benefits that the American dreams supposedly brings, the idealization of it is unrealistic. He also works to inform the readers that greed and obsession of material things will only lead to personal destruction, and most importantly, he best emphasizes the fact that wealth and success are not the epitome of personal

    Read More

  • Similarities Between Winter Dreams And The Great Gatsby

    1126 Words  | 5 Pages

    “Winter Dreams” and The Great Gatsby The short story of “Winter Dreams” and The Great Gatsby book are both written by F.Scott Fitzgerald. The American Dream is pursued in a similar way in the Great Gatsby and “Winter Dreams” thought the very materialistic characters Jay Gatsby and Dexter Green, falling in love with Judy and Daisy. The characters use the ideals of the American Dream (hard work, achievement, being self-reliant) to win the women they love.

    Read More

  • Letter To Judy Jones

    1009 Words  | 5 Pages

    As for the two of us, it seems that we left plenty of marks on each other back in our old days. Just a few days ago, Devlin, one of my business associate, informed me that you had married his friend, Mr. Simms, who apparently doesn’t treat you well. I am horrified to hear your story and I think to myself that something important has gone forever, I am no longer the idealistic young man who loved you, Judy Jones. Almost everything that I experienced is visualized in my mind.

    Read More

  • Snowpiercer Analysis

    1413 Words  | 6 Pages

    Set in a not-so-distant, yet post-apocalyptic future, Snowpiercer follows Curtis Everett, a lower-class man rebelling against an indomitable ideological regime, as humanity 's last survivors circle the frozen globe, divided by class, in one, long train. The world of Snowpiercer is built upon a society in which inequality reigns and violence is routine, and where the needs of the poor are eschewed in favor of the desires of the rich. Director Bong Joon-Ho adeptly weaves black humor with fast-paced dramatic action, and utilizes the Marxist concepts of hegemony, interpellation, and commodity as spectacle, in order to paint a cautionary picture of a continuously capitalist future. The State in Snowpiercer relies upon a deeply entrenched ruling ideology that can be summed up by Minister Mason 's 7-Minute speech beginning with "This is not a shoe."

    Read More

  • Comparison Between Winter Dreams And The Great Gatsby

    1374 Words  | 6 Pages

    Characters in novels can have obsessions with people, the same as in the world readers live in today. In the book, The Great Gatsby, the main, male character, Gatsby, is obsessed with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. In the passage Winter Dreams, Dexter, the main male character, is obsessed with a woman, Judy Jones. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote both of these novels/ passages introducing the same theme. The Great Gatsby is a story about a man who has revolved part of his life around trying to achieve his American dream by conforming to a woman and society 's standards.

    Read More

  • Literary Analysis Of Winter Dreams

    1560 Words  | 7 Pages

    By the end of the story he cannot have the girl, and his dreams are ruined. The author illustrates Dexter Green as a wishful boy longing for what the future holds. Fitzgerald incorporates many symbols as one being solely Judy Jones. The author uses style in the story by separating the story into 6 sections. Fitzgerald in “Winter Dreams” depicts the fantasy of the American dream and how no matter how hard one works he may never achieve his dream.

    Read More

  • Those Winter Sundays Analysis Essay

    784 Words  | 4 Pages

    “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden has much significance throughout it, the poem is generally about an adult reflecting back to his childhood having regrets for not appreciating his father's love. Hayden describes a father to son relationship for the reader. This poem can be similar to the quote “ you don’t what you’ve got until it's taking away” Hayden uses imagery, diction, and emotional appeal to make it relatable to the readers. Hayden writes this poem figuratively using imagery to provide the reader with a vivid ideal for example “Blueback cold” shows imagery of how cold those winter Sundays really were, and “Blueblack cold can also be used metaphorically here to describe the bruise on the child heart from the feeling of thinking he was unloved throughout his childhood. All love is shown in a different manner you just have to understand the

    Read More

  • I Dreamed A Dream Analysis

    2067 Words  | 9 Pages

    I Dreamed a Dream is a soliloquy piece, sung by Fantine during act one of Les Misérables (1980). Fantine has just been fired from her factory job after it is discovered that she has an illegitimate child and takes to selling herself on the streets to pay for medicine for her daughter. It is here that ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ is sung as a way of progressing the story and providing a realisation by the character of her unfortunate situation in life with the song being composed as a way of expressing the feelings of Fantine as she wonders where her life went so wrong as to descend to her present predicament. Throughout the song an anguished, during and impoverished Fantine reminisces on happier days and descends back to the harsh reality that is her hopeless life. I Dreamed a Dream is set in common time (4/4) with a steady set tempo throughout the piece, de despite significant changes in dynamic, texture, modulation and emotion.

    Read More

More about Winter Dreams Analysis

Open Document