Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

dexter green can be best described as?

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Dexter Green ("Winter Dreams")

Green is the protagonist of the story. He meets Jane Jones when he is fourteen and is captivated by her throughout his life, even when engaged to another girl. He is devastated when he finds that Judy's beauty has faded.

The effect of winter on Green’s psyche is intense. He lapses into "profound melancholy." It appears that winter severely affects Green’s mental state: it makes him "tremble," "repeat idiotic sentences" and "command…imaginary audiences." In winter, he hallucinates – initially about golf games, which he plays "over the fairways of his imagination

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