Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Luis Reviews Episode I: Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald

When reading this book, you expect a common man like Dexter, as all love stories normally, to fall in love with the girl he cannot obtain; in this case, the girl is Judy. However, right from the beginning you feel like that stereotypical guy gets girl story is slowly fading away. He feels she is a little brat from the beginning however, he for some reason feels dead set on her. You then read that he becomes a successful laundry chain owner, it brings your mind back to "he's going to get the girl mentality" now that hes up to her social level. This time however, you see her personality even more as she cries beside him saying that she left a man because he was not really rich. The stupidity of it all is that he feels he has a shot with her. But guess again, she pretends to not even know him at the sight of a new "wealthier" man. To some degree, he gets his happily ever after by staying with Irene, while she ended up in a abusive relationship.
Quote: "Lots of women fade just like that"
I feel that quote best describes how he worked so hard for Judy and she turned out to be the wrong person for him. She faded just like that.
Question: Did the author bring her return right when Irene came in to bring a sense of competition?

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