Wants and Needs Entangled in a Web of Illusions
“Winter Dreams” is a narrative story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and takes place over the span of eighteen years of Dexter Green’s life from ages fourteen to thirty-two, a young middle-class boy with a summer job where he “caddied only for pocket money” (Fitzgerald). Dexter day dreams during the winter about living a rich and famous lifestyle and links his ideals with his desires for Judy Jones. Dexter get so obsessed with his “Winter Dreams” that his wants and needs become entangled in a web of illusions. Dexter’s illusion control his emotions, overpower his judgment and cause him to make decisions in his life based on his wants, which ultimately leave him feeling discombobulated. Fitzgerald …show more content…
Antithesis is used to compare the different way Dexter feels about summer and winter “On the trees where the gay colors fluttered in summer, were now only the desolate sand-boxes knee-deep in crusted ice.” Dexter’s emotions during each season are as opposite in comparison as the seasons themselves. Fitzgerald uses imagery to describe the way winter depresses Dexter giving him “a feeling of profound melancholy” and also shows Dexter’s anxiety by "Clinch his hands,” “tremble," "repeat idiotic sentences" and "command…imaginary audiences." During the winter he “hallucinates about golf games” which he plays "over the fairways of his imagination" in order to pass the time until summer comes around …show more content…
When it comes to Dexter’s feelings about Judy, he once said, “No disillusion as to the world in which she had grown up could cure his illusion as to her desirability.” However when Dexter learns that Judy entered a bad marriage to a cheating alcoholic, and lost her physical attractiveness, he realizes that his winter dreams were gone forever. The last of his illusions pertaining to the upper class shattered. Fitzgerald uses diazeugma to end the story, “Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished”
“Winter Dreams” is a narrative story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and takes place over the span of eighteen years of Dexter Green’s life from ages fourteen to thirty-two, a young middle-class boy with a summer job where he “caddied only for pocket money” (Fitzgerald). Dexter day dreams during the winter about living a rich and famous lifestyle and links his ideals with his desires for Judy Jones. Dexter get so obsessed with his “Winter Dreams” that his wants and needs become entangled in a web of illusions. Dexter’s illusion control his emotions, overpower his judgment and cause him to make decisions in his life based on his wants, which ultimately leave him feeling discombobulated. Fitzgerald …show more content…
Antithesis is used to compare the different way Dexter feels about summer and winter “On the trees where the gay colors fluttered in summer, were now only the desolate sand-boxes knee-deep in crusted ice.” Dexter’s emotions during each season are as opposite in comparison as the seasons themselves. Fitzgerald uses imagery to describe the way winter depresses Dexter giving him “a feeling of profound melancholy” and also shows Dexter’s anxiety by "Clinch his hands,” “tremble," "repeat idiotic sentences" and "command…imaginary audiences." During the winter he “hallucinates about golf games” which he plays "over the fairways of his imagination" in order to pass the time until summer comes around …show more content…
When it comes to Dexter’s feelings about Judy, he once said, “No disillusion as to the world in which she had grown up could cure his illusion as to her desirability.” However when Dexter learns that Judy entered a bad marriage to a cheating alcoholic, and lost her physical attractiveness, he realizes that his winter dreams were gone forever. The last of his illusions pertaining to the upper class shattered. Fitzgerald uses diazeugma to end the story, “Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished”