The Dark Side
Have you ever heard of the dark side of the American Dream? F. Scott Fitzgerald has written a wonderful portrayal of the darker side of the American Dream in Winter Dreams. In this short story, we read about love, passion, and heartache. We also read about Dexter Green, a young man who falls in love with Judy Jones, a woman who believes that her life will only have meaning if men are fawning over her. Dexter Green is a young man who is the son of the owner of the second-best grocery store in Black Bear, Minnesota. April eventually begins and the first golfers brave the course. The winter enhances Dexter’s imagination and he starts imagining all different types of scenarios. In one of Dexter’s many ‘hallucinations’ beating the …show more content…
He realizes that he loves Judy above all else, but I believe that he has always known that he loves Judy more than anything. Dexter cares for both women, and he might love Irene, but he is in love with Judy. Loving someone and being in love with someone are two very different things, and sometimes I think people can’t decipher which is which. As Dexter is leaving for the east he has the intentions to sell his laundromats and finally settle in New York. However, fate had a different idea and the outbreak of World War I calls him back west, where he falls right into basic training, and is inviting combat to distract him from everything, including his undying love for Judy and how he let down Irene.
In New York seven years later, Dexter is now thirty-two and he is more successful than ever. Devlin, one of Dexter’s business associates, informs Dexter that “Judy married one of his friends who would also happen to be a man who cheats on her and is a big time alcoholic while Judy stays at home with their children.” (http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/winter-dreams/summary.html) According to Devlin, she has also lost her looks. Devlin did not really need to say that Judy has lost her looks, because maybe looks were not important to Dexter. Maybe Dexter loved her because of her sparkling personality, maybe Dexter looks deeper into
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Have you ever heard of the dark side of the American Dream? F. Scott Fitzgerald has written a wonderful portrayal of the darker side of the American Dream in Winter Dreams. In this short story, we read about love, passion, and heartache. We also read about Dexter Green, a young man who falls in love with Judy Jones, a woman who believes that her life will only have meaning if men are fawning over her. Dexter Green is a young man who is the son of the owner of the second-best grocery store in Black Bear, Minnesota. April eventually begins and the first golfers brave the course. The winter enhances Dexter’s imagination and he starts imagining all different types of scenarios. In one of Dexter’s many ‘hallucinations’ beating the …show more content…
He realizes that he loves Judy above all else, but I believe that he has always known that he loves Judy more than anything. Dexter cares for both women, and he might love Irene, but he is in love with Judy. Loving someone and being in love with someone are two very different things, and sometimes I think people can’t decipher which is which. As Dexter is leaving for the east he has the intentions to sell his laundromats and finally settle in New York. However, fate had a different idea and the outbreak of World War I calls him back west, where he falls right into basic training, and is inviting combat to distract him from everything, including his undying love for Judy and how he let down Irene.
In New York seven years later, Dexter is now thirty-two and he is more successful than ever. Devlin, one of Dexter’s business associates, informs Dexter that “Judy married one of his friends who would also happen to be a man who cheats on her and is a big time alcoholic while Judy stays at home with their children.” (http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/winter-dreams/summary.html) According to Devlin, she has also lost her looks. Devlin did not really need to say that Judy has lost her looks, because maybe looks were not important to Dexter. Maybe Dexter loved her because of her sparkling personality, maybe Dexter looks deeper into
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