Winter Dreams And The Garden Party - 1225 Words

Winter Dreams and The Garden Party I have chosen two short stories the first one being F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams and the second one being Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party. â€Å"Winter Dreams† was written in and published in 1922, and so was â€Å"The Garden Party†. â€Å"Winter Dreams† takes place during the winter months and we find the main character Dexter Green skiing on the golf course that he is a caddie for during the golf season. During the offseason, Dexter’s imagination becomes more and more powerful. He thinks of himself as one of the best golfers and he imagines himself beating some of the more esteemed members of the golf course. When the spring comes, Dexter runs into a lady by the name of Judy Jones. Judy asks†¦show more content†¦As the story goes, the book travels back in time to when Dex was twenty-three and when he was granted a weekend pass back to his old stomping grounds by one of the prominent figures he used to caddy for. There he runs into Judy and then while waiting to go on a date, he realizes just how much of a difference there is between their social classes. Dexter realizes he will never be able to marry her and eventually becomes engaged, but that falls apart, and by age thirty-two Dexter becomes more successful than ever before. A business associate of his notifies him that his love Judy has since married and was in a disaster of a relationship. The Garden Party takes place in early in the 20th century at the estate of a wealthy family in New Zealand. It was interesting story in the way that it portrayed the upper class in a not so fashionable way. In the story, Laura’s family is throwing a huge garden party. However, next door there is a family who is not so well off and they just lost the family patriarch in a tragic carriage accident, and yet her family insists on having the party delayed to pay respects to the next door neighbors. However, her self-cen tered family members refuse to, saying there is no need to cancel their party. Her sister goes on to even say when referring to the man who died, â€Å"You won’t bring a drunk workman back to life by being sentimental.†(Mansfield, 123) That just