She is perfectly happy to keep Dexter hanging around for a bit, but he is always one of many other lovers, whom she kicks to the curb whenever she wants. Eventually, Dexter wises up and decides that he needs a more lasting relationship and leaves Judy behind.

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For Dexter, Judy Jones is the epitome of the “glittering things and glittering people” of the world of wealth that he covets. It is around her that Dexter creates his “winter dreams.” When he first sees the young Judy, Dexter comprehends the power that wealth seems to bestow upon all it touches.

Lines 361–382: What does the dialogue between Dexter and Judy in these lines reveal about each character? The dialogue reveals that Dexter is trying to impress Judy and that Judy is only happy when she gets what she wants.

Lines 37–43: What does Mr. Jones think of Dexter’s caddying skills? Jones thinks Dexter’s’ caddying skills were the best he’s ever seen. He begs Dexter to not quit caddying.

She uses her physical attributes as her sole means of engaging with and interpreting the world. Like Dexter’s, the life she inhabits at the end of the story falls far short of the life she had expected. She is the victim of her malformed impressions of the world and inability to independently discover who she truly is.

Why is Judy Jones’s beauty important to her character? She uses it to get what she wants. Why does Fitzgerald choose not to provide a physical description of Dexter? The story is about Dexter’s personality and his emotional and mental traits.

As she grows into a young adult, Judy equates her beauty and family wealth with happiness because these two aspects help her get everything that she wants. She eventually finds all the men who courted her, including Dexter, boring.

Dexter’s real reason for quitting his caddying job is that he’s deeply affected by his first encounter with the young Judy, and he has to do something about these strong feelings right away: But he had received a strong emotional shock, and his perturbation required a violent and immediate outlet.

When Dexter refuses to caddy for them because he must attend the shop, and he informs them that there are no other caddies available, Miss Jones and the nurse go outside, where the girl slams her club on the ground with violence and an argument ensues between the child and her nurse.

Why does Dexter give up on marrying Judy after 18 months of courting her? He realizes that he cannot have her no matter what he does, it’s just not enough.

Dexter is affected by the news that Judy has married another man and subsequently lost her beauty by gaining a lost to almost all of his feelings of Judy Jones.

Dexter sees success as something that is both internal and external. The “glittering things” that Dexter covets helps to fuel his drive. It is this desire that feeds his desire for Judy Jones, someone he considers to embody the very best in all aspects of being.

When Judy realizes that her golf ball has struck Mr. Hedrick in his stomach, Judy offers a terse, insincere apology, then defends herself by reminding the men that she had called out “Fore!” (which in golf is the short way of saying “Look out: here comes my ball!”).

What do Judy’s varying responses to Dexter’s marriage proposals reveal about her feelings for him? When Judy saw Dexter she found out that he was engaged and still flirted with him and kept bringing up that way he used to feel about her.

Briefly Describe her. Irene is a nice girl who is well-off but doesn’t have Judy’s beauty. What does the decision to become engaged with Irene symbolize for Dexter? That Dexter has moved on from Judy.

Answer: Neither did the values and ideas of Dexter were influenced by the times nor his feelings for Judy Jones changed.

What is the difference between Dexter’s past and present? He was once a caddy himself and is now a wealthy man golfing. He was once an enemy of the men he is golfing with now. He was once familiar with the golf course and has now completely forgotten it.

– – Why does the author choose to tell us about Dexter’s fantasy life? Because it provides the reader with an insight on the shallowness and futility of Dexter’s quest.

No i don’t feel sorry for Judy or for Dexter because they sort of set up the misery themselves. They both focused on materialistic things and in the end that will never make anyone happy. Dexter allows himself to manipulated by her and it makes us feel sorry for him but really we shouldn’t cause he did it to himself.

He had thought Judy a “great beauty,” remote and unattainable. Now she appears to have become an ordinary housewife, faded, and abused as well. The image of Judy that Dexter has created in his mind is not simply building her up as a Romantic object, but transforming her into an inspiration for his entire life.

When Judy first meets Dexter, she is escaping a man at her house who’s asking her about ideals (Fitzgerald 1647). It’s no surprise that she eventually runs away from Dexter, because as early as their first date he’s already treating her as a commodity. He says, “It excited him that many men had loved her.

Dexter considers himself to be better than them, to be “newer and stronger” because his wealth and status is not based upon the deeds of his parents. His origins are poor.

In winter, Dexter Green, son of the owner of the second-best grocery store in Black Bear, Minnesota, skis across the snowed-in golf course where he caddies in the warmer months to earn his pocket money. Dexter imagines beating the golf club’s most esteemed members.

The “winter dreams” of the story refer to the American Dream that Dexter comes to embody, but success brings a high cost, and social mobility restricts Dexter’s capacity for happiness. Dexter is from humble origins: his mother was an immigrant who constantly struggled with the language of her adopted homeland.

In the story’s final section, Dexter has moved to New York and while he is talking business with a man from the midwest, he learns that Judy has married badly. Her husband “drinks and runs around” on her. She has also lost her beauty and looks much older than her twenty-seven years.

The main conflict of “Winter Dreams” is that Dexter dreams of joining the ranks of the rich. But when he sees Judy Jones – the lovely daughter of one of Sherry Island Golf Club’s members – on the golf course, he realizes that he has been going about it all wrong.

In the story, the American Dream, or the “winter dream,” is an endless—and ultimately unfulfilling—pursuit based on external standards of success and happiness. Dexter’s pursuit of his “winter dreams” compels him to model himself after wealthy people: he views wealth as the only valid measure of success.

At the beginning of the short story “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dexter’s views about the American dream are connected with ideals of fame and fortune. After that meeting with Judy Jones, the American dream for Dexter is no longer fame and fortune. Instead, it is to win Judy.

When he loses love, he becomes disillusioned with the American dream. By the end of the story, he is detached and unable to feel emotions of anger, pain, or hatred: “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.