Dexter Green's Dreams Essay

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Dexter Green’s Dreams Money may be the key to open to the door of power, reputation, and buy the beauty of women. However it is not certain that it will be able to buy satisfaction and happiness in life. Irish writer Oscar Wilde said, “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” I believe that Dexter Green in “Winder Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald experienced both tragedies in life but in different terms. Before going to analyze the way in which Wilde’s quote is illustrated though Green and Jones’ life, let’s take a few sentences to understand the meaning of this quote. The first part “one is not getting what one wants” clearly says that one does not get what one dreams, and it obviously make that person unhappy. However, the second part of the quote “the other is getting it” indeed depicts unhappiness too. One dreams, and then is able to get what one wants. It could bring one happiness for a moment, but at the same time this person loses the dream and instead it is the feeling of emptiness without aspiration and motivation. Besides, Oscar used the verb “want” in his quote implying that for almost everything humans strive, being strived, or will strive for, most of them is the things humans …show more content…

At first, the idea of quitting job was frightened him, but the blind infatuation and devotion to Judy’s beauty won. The young boy later even neglected his “scanty fund” to attend a famous and expensive university in the East mainly because of its prestige (Fitzgerald 2151). It can be said, getting wealthy was the only key to open the door to Judy’s beauty in the young Dexter’s mind, and he would scarified anything and everything in order to archive this

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