Crossing Paths With Judy Again Analysis

Within this quote Dexter is walking down the streets of Black Bear after a soft snowfall reminiscing all that had happened within the past year since the last May, when he met Judy again and she changed the course of his life again. Dexter marks Judy altering his life again as both bad and good as explained by the narrator as “poignant, unforgivable, yet forgiven turbulence.” Crossing paths with Judy again could be seen as an unforgivable thing because it turned what should have been a simple trip back home to play golf into a year of chasing after the love of Judy, which she returned with “possibly a grown care for him.” A year spent trying to earn a girls love, in Dexter’s case as an ambitious man who has already made so much of his like at a young age, is a year lost that could’ve been spent doing something more …show more content…
This quote gives emphasis on what we already knew about Judy, which is that she couldn’t be satisfied, even by someone who altered their life try to end her dissatisfaction. The only time she seems to see just how gratifying being with Dexter can be is after traveling from place to place going from suiter to suiter looking for someone to fill that void, feeling defeated saying “I'm awfully tired of everything, darling” she comes home to find Dexter still home, still, seemingly, waiting for her and she asks him to marry her. This moment comes after this quote, after Dexter has given up on chasing her. When Dexter declines her marriage proposal she sees that she doesn’t even have Dexter anymore and for the first time Dexter sees her cry. In this defining moment when she cries she fully exposes herself; she is a immeasurably sad person who could never be satisfied, not even by Dexter because he no longer wanted