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1. I feel sorry for both Dexter and Judy because they both are focused on materialistic things. Dexter allows himself to be manipulated by Judy’s beauty and high social status, which makes me feel sorry for Dexter since he is brainwashed. I feel sorry for Judy because she is spoiled.
2. A.) In the Spring Dexter felt depressed, in the Fall he filled with happiness, he knew there was something gorgeous about the fall. In October he was filled with hope, in November the hope he felt in October raised to ecstatic triumph, and Dexter describe Summer as fleeting. This is described on page 745, “Dexter knew that there was something dismal about this Northern Spring, just as he knew there was something gorgeous about the fall. Fall made him clinch his hands and tremble and repeat idiotic sentences to himself, and make brisk abrupt gestures of command to imaginary audiences and armies. October filled him with hope which November
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A.) The first time Dexter sees Judy he quits his job as a caddy. Dexter basically rethinks his life after the way Judy treated him. He recognizes that he wants more out of his life when he sees Judy and her high social status. This is seen on page 746, “The little girl who had done this was eleven--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. The spark, however, was perceptible. There was a general ungodliness in the way her lips twisted, down at the corners when she smiled, and in the--Heaven help us! -- in the almost passionate quality of her eyes. Vitality is born early in such women. It was utterly in evidence now, shining through her thin frame in a sort of glow.” After their second meeting, Judy becomes Dexter’s new quest in life. She was his reason for living. This is described on page 751, “His heart turned over like the flywheel of the boat, and, for the second time, her casual whim gave a new direction to his

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