American Literature Portfolio
· The Crack-Up (essays, 1945)
Winter Dreams by Fitzgerald
Dexter Green is a middle-class boy who aspires to be part of the "old money" elite. His father
owns the second most profitable grocery store in the town. He starts out as a teenage golf
caddy at a Golf Club in Lake Erminie, Minnesota, which has been suggested is really White
Bear Lake, where Fitzgerald lived for a relatively short time at the Yacht Club. It is when he
is caddying that he is first introduced to Judy Jones, a spoiled eleven year old. Dexter works
under Judy Jones' father, Mortimer Jones, at the club, and one day decides he is too old to
work there. In reality, he quits his job not because of his age but because he doesn't like
feeling inferior to the people for whom he is caddying.
After college, Dexter buys a partnership in a laundry business and becomes wealthy and
successful
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