Who Is Judy's Dream In The Great Gatsby

It is an undeniable aspect of human nature to wonder at – and even dream of possessing – the life styles of the fabulously rich. In his “WINTER DREAMS” F. Scott Fitzgerald, an outsider to that class and a wonderer himself, reminds us to be careful for what we wish. All is not necessarily what it seems behind those golden portals. Dexter Green, Fitzgerald’s dreamer, by name and talent – unlike his more famous and mysterious brother in fiction, Jay Gatsby – is certainly dexterous at working smartly and hard to earn huge amounts of green/gold American dollars. He propels himself into the world he dreams of owning. His apparent paramour – a literary cousin to the equally flirtatious, Daisy Buchanan – is the more prosaically named, Judy Jones. …show more content…
He mourns the loss of Judy. “He tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. (Fitzgerald.V.8A). It cannot be believed that Judy has found true love with her abusive husband in Detroit despite Devin’s insistence, “I’m inclined to think she loves him.” She has lost her beauty and the fact that he will have her at all, in fact be “madly in love with her.” (Fitzgerald.VI.A). may make her very grateful; for without her beauty, she is without any sense of self. That is perhaps why the women in Detroit like her. (Fitzgerald. VI.A). In Chekov’s “THE THREE SISTERS,” thy youngest sibling, Irena, speaks of her inability to feel true love. She explains to the man she is about to marry, how she lost that capacity: IRENA: (To love you) is not within my power! I’ll be your wife, faithful and obedient; but that’s not love. I can’t help it! (Weeps.) I have never in my life been in love. Oh, how I have dreamed of love, dreamed of it for a long time now, night and day, but my soul is like a fine piano that is locked and the key is lost. (Chekov. …show more content…
Her absence of any real care for her lovers propels her on a speed boats’ reckless course, as fast as she can go, from one sensual pleasure to another. His desire to possess Judy rather than any consideration of nurturing her is a self inflicted wound. He is ultimately a selfish man, more intent on obtaining his wishes than anything else. “Dexter was at bottom hard-minded.”says his creator. (Fitzgerald.V.8A.) It is a glamorous world of beauty and excess that Fitzgerald observes and harshly criticizes, not for its lack of morality as much as for its lack of simple human feeling and the requisite human quality of caring for