F. Scott Fitzgerald uses paradoxes to show the relationships involved in the story. First, as Dexter caddies at the Sherry Island Golf Club, he sees Judy Jones for the first time. The narrator writes that she is “beautifully ugly” (588). Secondly, the narrator describes Judy Jones’s facial expression when she looks for a caddy. The contradictory way Dexter feels about her grin carries over into how he thinks of her as a whole. She stands with a dazzling, yet phony beneath the surface, grin: “the smile…--radiant, blatantly artificial—convincing” (589). Furthermore, the narrator describes how late in Dexter and Judy’s relationship Dexter proposes to Judy but gets only a run-around response. Judy says, “‘…maybe someday,…kiss me,…I’d like to marry you,…I love you’—she said—nothing” (595). Moreover, reflecting on how Judy treats Dexter the narrator lists the ways she gives and takes just the right amount in order to keep his interest. He writes, “…she had brought him ecstatic happiness and intolerable agony of spirit. She had caused him untold inconvenience and not a little trouble” (596). In like manner, a year after Judy and Dexter’s affairs end, he begins to forgive but not forget her, keeping her safe in his dreams until reality intrudes. Fitzgerald describes Dexter reflecting on the bittersweet relationship. Although Judy has inexcusable behavior Dexter absolves it: “May one year back had been marked by Judy’s poignant, unforgivable, yet forgiven turbulence” (597). Paradoxes have importance in the story because they describe the roller coaster-like relationship between Dexter and Judy.

plicated character, uses paradoxes to describe the relationships present in the story, and produces a person who molds his life around his dreams.

Throughout the story, Dexter has dreams that significantly affect his life. For instance, as a boy Dexter dreams of a better future. The author depicts one of these dreams by stating, “He became a golf champion and defeated Mr. T.A. Hedrick in a…match played a hundred times over in the fairways of his imagination,…” (588). Additionally, one day at the golf club he decides to quit because of the dreams he has a

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