Puzzle Paragraph: "Winter Dreams"

A month ago I viewed Fitzgerald in largely the same way I viewed Moses: I don't have a super concrete understanding of who this guy is and I'm not in a hurry to learn. However after reading a few of the things Fitzgerald wrote including "Winter Dreams" I've come to appreciate his writing. Dexter and Judy don't meet "once upon a time," they meet in the real world where getting the girl doesn't fix your problems, and where dreams don't come true. Really it's the American Dream that robs Dexter of his happiness in the end. One of the things Fitzgerald sets out to prove is that placing value on material wealth and the status associated with it will only hurt you in the end. It's a lesson that applies to everyone, and remains relevant even today. Part of the way Fitzgerald uses rhetoric to persuade his audience is through the use of color. He doesn't make the novel colorful by randomly adding orange planes and pink elephants, his use of color is much more complex. Every color has a meaning that circles back to the overall purpose of the story. I understand now why Fitzgerald's writing is important; I think that the themes discussed in his writing will stay with me for years to come.

Allow me to play you out...

(Freddy falls in love with a girl for some of the same superficial reasons Dexter does)