F. Scott Fitzgerald was a short story writer and a novelist considered “one of the pre-eminent authors in history of American Literature.” “No major American novelist of the 1920s generation was more enamored with a lifestyle of excess and pleasure than F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams was part of his writing his style on his stories of wanting wealth and to be upper ranks and this can be supported by his life events, the world around him, and the analysis of Winter Dreams, even though he hated materialistic and wealth at the time. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. His father was an alcoholic while his mother was “intensely ambitious” and grew up “acutely conscious of wealth and privilege.”
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In the short story, he “wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people--he wanted the glittering things themselves.” He didn’t desire to have upper status and more wealth, considering his father owned the second best grocery store, he was considered middle class, but then he met Judy Jones and he desired more and was attracted to her beauty and tried to follow his “winter dreams”. I interpreted the novel as Dexter noticing that Judy would not go for a boy like him, but if he had money and status he would be target and so he did just enough to get her attention years later. Their love would be a mess and I made many comparisons to this short story and to his life with Zelda as they two had problems and him having to earn for a living and gain status to be with Zelda. The story ends with him learning that Judy’s beauty has faded and that his “winter dreams” was gone forever and that he was no longer a young man looking for status or point into Judy’s wealthy world, with this quote "Long ago," he said, "long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.” Fitzgerald's earlier years can be seen in this story and how America had changed during the time after the first world war. Each had a little part in what would become one
In the short story, he “wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people--he wanted the glittering things themselves.” He didn’t desire to have upper status and more wealth, considering his father owned the second best grocery store, he was considered middle class, but then he met Judy Jones and he desired more and was attracted to her beauty and tried to follow his “winter dreams”. I interpreted the novel as Dexter noticing that Judy would not go for a boy like him, but if he had money and status he would be target and so he did just enough to get her attention years later. Their love would be a mess and I made many comparisons to this short story and to his life with Zelda as they two had problems and him having to earn for a living and gain status to be with Zelda. The story ends with him learning that Judy’s beauty has faded and that his “winter dreams” was gone forever and that he was no longer a young man looking for status or point into Judy’s wealthy world, with this quote "Long ago," he said, "long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.” Fitzgerald's earlier years can be seen in this story and how America had changed during the time after the first world war. Each had a little part in what would become one