Analysis Of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Winter Dreams'

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“ The hardest thing you will ever have to do is grieve the loss of someone who is still alive.”This quote by Jeannette Walls tells us how it’s harder to grieve for a person who is alive than a person who is dead the reason being that because the person is dead you can no longer see them but a person who is alive. The pain from that love is much like being stabbed with a knife.The pain from the love is more dreadful you want to love them but there is no way too. The person to the love that the person has for them starts to rot and becomes toxic and turns into depression. There is a story that reflects to this quote it is , “ Winter Dreams “ , by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The reason this story is relevant is because a character that can relates

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