Fitzgerald Analysis
...nes. She is “arrestingly beautiful” with her “passionate vitality” that imprisons men’s hearts. For Dexter she represents this life of glamour and radiating brightness that he can, perhaps, join in on, if he is with her. Judy is manipulative and moody and captures men with her lavish, deep yet “charitable” kisses. He uses this characterization to allude to the pursuit of success and how it sucks you in with its alluring perks. He furthers this thought through continuous characterization of Judy Jones. She is selfish and gives men “fulfillment but no promise” just like success. She is incredibly shallow and materialistic yet she has excuse because of her “physical loveliness.” Fitzgerald uses her as an embodiment of his theme. Success is so physically attractive but with it brings “agony in spirit.” She is charming and deceptive and her deficiencies are disguised by her “passionate energy” and the “ecstatic happiness” she brings to Dexter. What Dexter fails to see is the shallowness of Judy and the shallowness at the center of her life. Fitzgerald continues to use Jones as a metaphor for the life of success and reveals through her hollowness, the emptiness of success. Dexter finally realizes the fruitlessness of his pursuit and is forced to admit the illusory nature of his winter dreams. Just as he learns of Judy’s faded beauty he sees his dreams the same way. When Dexter learns of Judy marriage he knew he had lost something more than just and old love. He realize...