People who come
from similar backgrounds may have similar experiences.This applies
to the characters of Jay Gatsby and Dexter Green, who progress
throughout The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams to achieve the
lifestyle the lifestyle they always wanted, but fall short when it
comes to love. The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams were written By
F. Scott
Fitzgerald. Both of these stories give an insight to life in
the 1920s. Jay Gatsby is one of the main characters in
The Great
Gatsby. He came from a poor family and eventually became
extremely wealthy, but he isnt satisfied without his past lover,
Daisy Buchanan. Dexter Green was a
golfcaddy as a
young boy, which is where he met his love interest, Judy Jones. As
he grows older and rises to the upper
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They both
experienced change, which gave them a greater chance of attaining
the person that they always wanted. He talked a lot about the
past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea
of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had
been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once
return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he
could find out what that thing was.- (The Great Gatsby 110) Jay
Gatsby had known Daisy Buchanan five years prior to when The Great
Gatsby takes place. They lost contact when Jay went to fight in the
war, and Daisy decided to marry Tom. When Jay moved to West Egg,
their paths crossed once again. His heart turned over like the
fly-wheel of the boat, and, for the second time, her casual whim
gave a new direction in his life. (Winter Dreams 4). When Dexter
Green first met Judy Jones, he was part of a middle class family.
After this Dexter went to college and became the owner of numerous
laundromats. He came in contact with Judy for the second time, and
felt as though he needed her in order to complete his transition
for middle class to upper class. Despite reconnecting with the
person who meant the most to them, the relationship didnt last for
either Jay Gatsby or Dexter
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