Winter

The character of Dexter in Winter Dreams The main character in the short story “Winter Dreams” written by F Scott Fitzgerald, is a fourteen-year-old boy named Dexter. Dexter is kind of a nut case when winter comes around He goes into an intense and emotional melancholy." It appears that winter severely affects Green’s psych; it makes him "tremble," "repeat foolish sentences" and "command imaginary audiences." In winter, he fantasizes – primarily about golf games, which he plays "over the…

Robert Hayden was born in the year 1913 and through the century until 1980. His work hold much value in the literary aspect of the United States history. So much that he was appointed consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. "Those Winter Sundays" is just one of the many works that he did. He was gifted in his works that if evokes experiences in ones past like our childhood, the love that was shown to us when we were young, and just the process of growing The story is about a young boy…

indulgence. Material wealth and success are both components of the American Dream, a dream so many sought to capture during the early 1900’s. Through the story of Dexter Green, “Winter Dreams” is able to draw a parallel between the dream so many in America sought and the dream Green sought for himself. In the short story “Winter Dreams”, F. Scott Fitzgerald seeks to reveal the discrepancy between the appearance of the American Dream and the reality hidden in the prospects of wealth and an…

though we were oblivious to different ideas and if we had known then what we know now, our lives back then would have been different. As we mature and grow older, our view of the world is changed through experience and gaining wisdom. In "Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden, the speaker is a grown man reflecting on his past self and his indifference toward his father when he was a child. Now that he is an adult, the speaker has come to recognize what regretfully he had been…

Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dream” and The Great Gatsby are both extraordinarily tales of unrequited love and the pursuit of the American Dream. The story “Winter Dreams” is not as complex as the novel “The Great Gatsby”. The story seems to be the preview of what’s to come in the novel. The theme of unrequited love and the American Dream are both present in both stories, but the development of the main characters from Dexter and Judy to Gatsby and Daisy shows us the best examples of how one can assume…

Survival, Self-interest, and Morality For some people to survive they have to take into consideration their best interest and sacrifice moral values. John Steinbeck expressed in The Winter of Our Discontent, “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shown.” In other words, Steinbeck believes that when people learn the truth it can cause shock and realization of how bad some situations really are. John Steinbeck was correct. Being in the unknown about…

I wrote this song because the story Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald was probably my favorite story that I read for this class. Even when I was first reading it I had thought of how the relationship between Judy and Dexter would be perfect to make a song out of. The story overall has many different elements portraying the average idea of the American Dream. Fitzgerald used the life of Dexter to show the ideas of making your own fortune, the excitement and sadness of young love, and being…

wondrous. When I read these words, there is only one thing that comes to my mind, and that is, the magical season of winter. I believe winter is a better season than summer. A survey on debate.org showed that 58% of people chose winter over summer. Snow angels, snowball fights, snowmobiling, ice skating, creating snowmen, sledding, and snowboarding are all activities that are done in the winter. You might say, “In the summer there are more activities, you can go water skiing, swimming and…

“Love isn 't something you find. Love is something that finds you.” (Love Quotes) This quote by Loretta Young can define one of the life lessons learned by the author in the poem “Those Winter Sundays.” Written by Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” (Kelly, 270) is one of those poems that allows readers to feel emotionally from the heart. This fourteen line poem goes beyond a deeper meaning than what the text reads. It is a poem that teaches its reader’s the bigger meaning of life, rather than…

It has often been repeated that with time comes grace. This maxim does well to describe the reflections found in “Those Winter Sundays” by the author, Robert Hayden. In a recollection, assumedly decades later, Hayden speaks of his father’s morning activity on a winter Sunday. In a wistful, ashamed tone, he recalls his father waking up before dawn, and chopping wood to warm the house. He makes sure the rooms are warmed, and polishes his son’s shoes for him. Concerning these labors of love,…