... , and religious idealism. They look for the idealistic concept of what they want it to convey, rather than what it actually is. "Winter Dreams- portrays different thoughts of Fitzgerald's, particularly from events that happened in his own life during the Jazz Age. The beginning of Dexter Green's dream happens around 1911 at ... I cannot care. That thing will come back no more- (602). Dexter defends her, but in the end, realizes the irony of the situation. Fitzgerald is able to incorporate his opinion of how the idealistic American Dream promises more than it actually delivers. People spe...

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The writer who summed up an era Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He grew up with an alcoholic father and an adoring, intensely ambitious mother. Dissipate all Francis would grow up to be the ... one else was able to do. The characters in each book would take after some role in his life. The search for love in "Winter Dreams" demonstrates Fitzgerald's search for love in his own life. When looking upon Fitzgerald's novels you can see an insight into his own personal life. The shadowy characters that Francis Scott starts his novels with start to come to ... ...

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