Winter Dreams

Winter Dreams is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in 1922.

Dexter Green is a young man with great aspirations for wealth and love. His father owns a successful grocery store, but Dexter wants to enter the wealthier world he observes while working as a caddie.

He becomes captivated by Judy Jones, the beautiful and emotionally elusive daughter of a wealthy family. Their intermittent relationship becomes bound up with Dexter’s ambitions and his ideal of success.

Years later, news of Judy forces Dexter to confront the distance between the dazzling future he imagined and the life that time has actually produced.

"Some of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second-best grocery-store in Black Bear—the best one was "The Hub," patronized by the wealthy people from Sherry Island—and Dexter caddied only for pocket-money."