Winter Dreams
Complete textDexter Green works as a caddie and imagines a future beyond the social position of serving wealthy golfers. His growing success becomes entangled with his fascination for Judy Jones. The pursuit of distinction and the pursuit of an elusive woman feed ambitions that neither achievement nor intimacy can easily settle.
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Seasonal imagery connects desire to moments that already seem destined to become memories. Dexter’s attention turns Judy into part of a larger imagined life, making it difficult to separate affection from aspiration. Compare his practical success with the emotional value he places on a particular image of happiness, especially when present knowledge threatens the version preserved in memory.
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Follow the connection between social ambition and remembered desire as Dexter’s success fails to settle what he expects from an idealized future.
This reading edition contains 8,470 words in 6 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.
Opening excerpt
Some of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second best grocery-store in Black Bear—the best one was "The Hub," patronized by the wealthy people from Sherry Island—and Dexter caddied only for pocket-money.
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