... life experience in a definite two of his works. Fitzgerald considered his short story, "Winter Dreams- a first draft for The Great Gatsby for several reasons such as the similarities between James Gatsby and Dexter Green, Daisy Buchanan and Judy Jones, and the themes of love and money. The similarities between the short narrative and the novel are strikingly parallel. It seems almost as if Fitzgerald wrote one to complement ... This is such a turning point in the novel because this is when Daisy shows her true feelings for Gatsby; or rather, Gatsby's money. As soon as she saw Gatsby's we...

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... Clinton S. Burhans states that "Fitzgerald once described "Winter Dreams" as "a sort of first draft of the Gatsby Idea," Mr. Burhans does not agree but considers the story "worth careful study" and states "Winter Dreams can be a fertile and challenging story; for a student of Fitzgerald, its careful analysis is a rewarding necessity." After reading "Winter Dreams" and "The Great Gatsby" I can see the common elements in the ... two stories that would make Fitzgerald describe "Winter Dreams" as "a sort of first draft of the Gatsby idea". In both stories the female ... role is viewed as a ...

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... to misguidedly equate his identity with his desire to attain those dreams. Common themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, James Thurber's short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Winter Dreams establish that infatuation with dreams causes conflict, confusion, and loss of identity. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, protagonist Jay Gatsby assumes an alias and conceals his past in order to attain opulence, resulting in ... the equivocation of his identity. For Gatsby, or Gatz as he was once ... ...

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... out on the important things in life and dwell on the good things. Being optimistic can satisfy a person so much. Honesty, loving, and having an optimistic personality are three qualities a person can posses that will make them very satisfied. Providing all of the things above that can be satisfying Nick, Gatsby, and Dexter are three characters from Great Gatsby and "Winter Dreams", that would have an opinion on them ... . Nick probably wouldn't agree that being optimistic and having money is satisfy but being caring is more satisfying. A drawback to the seemingly limitless excess Nick se...

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