1. Growing up Fitzgerald was once told “Rich girls don’t marry poor boys” and these lines stuck with him throughout his life especially in his writing. In both “Winter Dreams” and “The Great Gatsby” the main character’s Dexter and Jay Gatsby try their hardest to become wealthy in order to be able to marry the people they fall in love with, rich girls, The two are very similar although they have some differences.
The Great Gatsby tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a boy who was once dirt poor who turned into a rich man. He fell in love with Daisy a rich girl. He left to fight in the war and when he came back she had already wed a rich man named tom Buchanan. In order to win her back, he realized he needed to become rich in order to provide for her. …show more content…
In the Great Gatsby Gatsby falls in love with Daisy and does everything to become rich in order to provide for her but Daisy never left her husband Tom, who cheated on her multiple times because he had more money and a child with her. Like Gatsby, Dexter falls in love with Judy a rich girl who never bothered to settle down with him even though he was a rich man instead, who “drinks and runs around… [while she ] stays at home with her kids.” (Fitzgerald 8) The two, in the end, are in love with women who don’t end up with them but instead with their cheating husbands. A difference between Gatsby and Dexter was that Dexter, although he loved Judy moved on and married another girl versus Gatsby who never moved on from Daisy. Dexter admitted that “He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her”(Fitzgerald 8) and had grown okay with which led him to be able to move on and marry another woman, Irene. Unlike Dexter, though, Gatsby was never able to move on from Daisy, in fact, he became very stubborn with the idea that Daisy would still choose him when talking to Nick he says"You must remember, old sport, she was very excited this afternoon. He told her those things in a way that frightened her – that made it look as if I was some kind of cheap sharper. And the result was she hardly knew what she was saying." (Fitzgerald 8.22)This shows that Gatsby was too blinded to see past what he wanted and could never move on like