Winter Dreams

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Winter Dreams is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in the Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All The Sad Young Men in 1926.

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Dexter Green is a Minnesota caddie, who is currently unsatisfied with his job so he decides to quit. He meets the vivacious Judy Jones, with whom he shares an instant attraction. It is through her that Dexter forms his ambitions of a glamorous life. He joins Judy in her world, the world of the elite. At first they share a life of excitement and Dexter enjoys it to no end. Yet like all good things this too must come to an end and Dexter begins to realize how empty this lifestyle really is.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Books
Novels: This Side of Paradise | The Beautiful and Damned | The Great Gatsby | Tender is the Night | The Love of the Last Tycoon
Short Story Books: Flappers and Philosophers | Tales of the Jazz Age | All the Sad Young Men | Taps at Reveille | The Pat Hobby Stories | The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Other works: The Princeton Tiger | The Vegetable | The Crack-Up | Winter Dreams | Babylon Revisited | Bernice Bobs Her Hair | The Cut-Glass Bowl | Benediction | Head and Shoulders


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