In this country called America, the citizens of this great country have this desire or need to always want more then they have. Since this country was started long ago there has been this thing everyone referrers to as the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea that any man or woman can achieve prosperity, happiness, and success through hard work and determination. F. Scott Fitzgerald in the short story “Winter Dreams” uses the character Dexter to illustrate the point of the American Dream of the poor and middle class of the country, and if they do achieve some prosperity they are often unhappy and left wanting more. In the story “Winter Dreams” there are six different sections to the overall story of Dexter's life.
In the beginning …show more content…
He was wearing his best suit tailored by the greatest tailors in America. As he waited for Judy to come down stairs he is thinking about all the men that had stood in that room. As Fitzgerald quotes, “He knew the sort of men they were--the men who when he first went to college had entered from the great prep schools with graceful clothes and the deep tan of healthy summers. He had seen that, in one sense, he was better than these men. He was newer and stronger. Yet in acknowledging to himself that he wished his children to be like them he was admitting that he was but the rough, strong stuff from which they eternally sprang.” It is quite interesting to notice how Dexter talks about the gentlemen he went to college with and how he is much better and stronger than them in many ways but also wishes that his children can grow up as they did. Another quote by Fitzgerald, “She wore a blue silk afternoon dress, and he was disappointed at first that she had not put on something more elaborate”, some may think this quote doesn't have anything important but if looked into the deeper meaning. As Dexter is finally getting little of what he wants from Judy or looked as the American Dream he isn't as pleased as he thought he would be he's disappointed with where he is. He wants …show more content…
Many citizens come to find the get a glimpse of the light and are shoved out in the matter of what felt like nothing. Fitzgerald writes, “ She was not a girl who could be "won" in the kinetic sense--she was proof against cleverness, she was proof against charm; if any of these assailed her too strongly she would immediately resolve the affair to a physical basis, and under the magic of her physical splendor the strong as well as the brilliant played her game and not their own”, this quote shows the side of Judy Jones who greatly represents the American Dream and how it leads everyday men
In the beginning …show more content…
He was wearing his best suit tailored by the greatest tailors in America. As he waited for Judy to come down stairs he is thinking about all the men that had stood in that room. As Fitzgerald quotes, “He knew the sort of men they were--the men who when he first went to college had entered from the great prep schools with graceful clothes and the deep tan of healthy summers. He had seen that, in one sense, he was better than these men. He was newer and stronger. Yet in acknowledging to himself that he wished his children to be like them he was admitting that he was but the rough, strong stuff from which they eternally sprang.” It is quite interesting to notice how Dexter talks about the gentlemen he went to college with and how he is much better and stronger than them in many ways but also wishes that his children can grow up as they did. Another quote by Fitzgerald, “She wore a blue silk afternoon dress, and he was disappointed at first that she had not put on something more elaborate”, some may think this quote doesn't have anything important but if looked into the deeper meaning. As Dexter is finally getting little of what he wants from Judy or looked as the American Dream he isn't as pleased as he thought he would be he's disappointed with where he is. He wants …show more content…
Many citizens come to find the get a glimpse of the light and are shoved out in the matter of what felt like nothing. Fitzgerald writes, “ She was not a girl who could be "won" in the kinetic sense--she was proof against cleverness, she was proof against charm; if any of these assailed her too strongly she would immediately resolve the affair to a physical basis, and under the magic of her physical splendor the strong as well as the brilliant played her game and not their own”, this quote shows the side of Judy Jones who greatly represents the American Dream and how it leads everyday men