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Judy, who has a reputation for promiscuity due to her serial dating of wealthy young men, begins dating Dexter alongside many other men after he becomes successful from his string of laundries. Though Dexter asks her to marry him and she agrees, Judy breaks her engagement and winds up marrying Lud Simms. Judy is carefree, direct, and self-possessed, which makes her irresistible to Dexter, but it also makes her unattainable. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:.
Section 1 Quotes. Related Symbols: Winter Dreams. Explanation and Analysis:. Section 2 Quotes. Related Characters: T. Hedrick speaker , Judy Jones. Related Themes: Gender and Ambition. Section 3 Quotes. Section 4 Quotes. Related Themes: Dreams, Happiness, and Reality.
The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Section 1. Though she Judy calls to Dexter to inquire about the whereabouts of the golf teacher and the caddy-master, Section 2. Hedrick in the stomach. Judy Jones claims it as hers, which prompts Hedrick to complain about her presence—and that of Hedrick, however, seems to Later in the afternoon, Dexter meets Judy while he is out swimming in the lake and she is out on her motor-boat Section 3.
Dexter and Judy embark on a romance. Important Quotes Explained. Scott Fitzgerald and Winter Dreams Background. Characters Judy Jones. Previous section Dexter Green. Popular pages: Winter Dreams. To put it another way, Judy is a blank character. She is a screen onto which men like Dexter project what they most want to see: beauty, romance, soul.
We never really see what she's like when she's alone and not being watched by desiring men. In some ways, she is as two-dimensional a character as her father or T. Hedrick: she's just there to spur on Dexter's own fantasies. In the end, all we really know about Judy is that her endless search for satisfaction seems to burn itself out by the end of the story.
She marries a businessman from Detroit, Lud Simms. She has lost her looks and devoted herself to her children.
Her husband drinks too much and sleeps around. Judy may be happy and she may not be. Who knows? Certainly, Devlin, who reports all this news to Dexter, feels "sort of sorry for her" 6. But the real point is that the fact that Judy has settled down into this lackluster existence makes Dexter realize that he is also no longer searching for a better life.
He has given up his own romantic ideals, too. He's settled for less that what he aimed for. Judy Jones, the symbol of Dexter's larger-than-life dreams has now become boring Judy Simms. She's the dream disappeared. And because she is never fleshed out as a real, three-dimensional person, we can't muster much sympathy for her. We're more focused on Dexter, who at last has to face up to the fact that the dream he has been chasing for all these years has always been an impossibility, no matter how much money he's made.
Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. Scott Fitzgerald. Previous Next. Judy Jones Let's think about this for a second. Moody Judy The problem is, Judy's beauty and money guarantee that she has everything she wants. What makes her so restless? Why can't she settle with Dexter, who certainly has a lot to offer? Just a Pretty Face?
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