Fitzgeralds winter dreams

             English Study: Discussing "Winter Dreams" as a Love Story
             Winter Dreams, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic love story. It includes all of the stereotypical parts and moments we've come to expect from years of watching movies and from television.
             Every love story has a hero, the one person we route for and believe is the good guy. The hero will usually come from a poor family or has a set back of some sort keeping him from the heroine. In Winter Dreams, our hero is Dexter Green, son of the owner of the second best grocery store in Black Bear. As we find out Dexter is a caddie to the more wealthy men we immediately know his social standing. The typical good mannered young boy who dreams of one day being wealthy enough to have his own caddie, and expectedly falls in love with a more wealthy and beautiful girl who all the men urn for. Then just as expected the fateful first meeting occurs and the two destined lovers meet for the first time. "There was a general ungodliness in the way her lips twisted down at the corners when she smiled, and in the- Heaven help us!- in the almost passionate quality of her eyes" (360). Even though he has not yet fallen in love with her he notices her beauty in this, the most important first meeting. Dexter realizes that if he caddies for the young Judy Jones, he will never be able to have her. Caddying would show his lower social standing and therefore in her mind he would not have a chance. " 'What are you standing there like a dummy for? Go pick up the young lady's clubs' "(361). To which Dexter responds, " 'I think I'll quit' " (361). He chooses to quit rather than caddy, perhaps not only because of Judy
             but for his own dreams of becoming successful, at this point our hero has only seen the heroine and it is not till there next meeting that he will fall in love. It is the second meeting that our hero rea
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