... 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 ... Fitzgerald obviously wrote "Winter Dreams- and The Great Gatsby to coincide with each other on many levels. The characters Fitzgerald uses in both of the works ar...

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