Winter Dreams and Other Stories

This collection gathers some of Fitzgerald's finest short fiction, with the title story following Dexter Green, a young man of humble origins who becomes obsessed with capturing the elusive ideal embodied by the golden girl Judy Jones. The stories explore recurring Fitzgerald themes of wealth, desire, the American Dream, and the melancholy of yearning for something forever out of reach. Together they form a portrait of the Jazz Age's glittering promise and its inevitable disillusionment.