The Theme Of Love In F. Scott Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams

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Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts a dream held by Dexter Green of being able to live a luxurious lifestyle.This dream was created from seeing a snobby eleven year old he meets in a confrontation on his last day being a caddy. As a result of Judy being overlooked by her mother and father her whole life is wasted from never finding true love and only feeling comfortable with loving herself. The same snobbish girl named Judy Jones grows up to become a shallow, unthoughtful, arrogant individual who leads men into believing she truly cares for them, but in reality she is just yearning for love from an individual to take place of the love she was neglected from by her parents.
As a child Judy never had to experience hardship, but by hints throughout the story from …show more content…
“She was entertained only by the gratification of his desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm. Perhaps from so much youthful love, so many youthful lovers, she had come, in self-defense, to nourish herself wholly from within. ” ( Fitzgerald 8) Therefore Judy has multiple relationships with men and in reality she is only in the “so called relationship” for the benefits such as money and fancy dates. This reoccurring theme is evident when Judy says "You’re not. I like you. But I’ve just had a terrible afternoon. There was a man I cared about, and this afternoon he told me out of a clearsky that he was poor as a church-mouse. He'd Never even hinted it before” ( Fitzgerald 6). Another example of Judy Jones being shallow how quickly she loses interest in a man and leaves him for another. “Last night I thought I was in love with the man and tonight I'm in love with you”. This is an awful trait Judy has instilled in her but when analyzing Judy's actions it becomes evident that her lack of affection shown from her parents impacted her own love
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