(Gatsby, 153).
This quote principally describes Gatsby's longing for Daisy; furthermore, his ability to never obtain this goal. Dexter's connection with Judy is so similar that the reader begins to wonder weather Fitzgerald made two separate character or one with different names. After a long life of being with and without Judy, Dexter comes to the strong realization that he can simply not have her. This is stated after he spends his last night with Judy: He [loves] her and he will love her until he was too old for loving "but he could not have her. So he [tastes] the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he [tastes] for a little while the happiness' (Winter Dreams 600). It is exposed to the reader that Dexter's hope for Judy Jones is officially vanished. Although Dexter and Gatsby are awfully similar, Fitzgerald did not stop there. He created another duo of characters to parallel these works.
Daisy Buchanan and Judy Jones are as alike if not more then their male counterparts. Daisy and Judy alike grew up with immense wealth and both felt that they were somewhat above other people. The similarities between these two exist not only in the way they act, but their physical descriptions are strikingly equivalent as well. All whose eyes befall them consider these two women beautiful. One day while Dexter is on the gold course, Judy and a friend play through. As soon as Dexter sees her he is describing her as: .
She [is] arrestingly beautiful. The color in her cheeks [are] centered like the color is a picture "It [is] not a "high- color, but a sort of fluctuating and feverish warmth, so shaded that it seemed at any moment it would recede and disappear. This color and the mobility of her mouth gave a continual impression of flux, of intense life, of passionate vitality "balanced only partially by the sad luxury of her eyes. (Winter Dreams, 591).
Judy's amazing beauty is what attracts men to her.
