F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jeremy A. Griffin Fitzgerald Literary Analogy Winter Dreams hits closer to home. In fact, it is one of the few Fitzgerald stories obviously set in and around White Bear Lake, the summer playground of Saint Paul's elite. Dexter Green first encounters Judy Jones when he is caddying at her club. He quits on the spot because he realizes that she sees him as a servant, and he quite consciously begins to make something of himself …

…the water. A band playing somewhere, and a smell of peanutsand everything will twinkle. ... It will all hang out there in the night like a colored balloonlike a big yellow lantern on a pole. Then the priest pauses, frowns, and adds: But don't get up too close, for if you do you'll only feel the heat and the sweat and the life. The Great Gatsby tells the story of a man who got too close.