WINTER DREAMS
[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] Like the novel "The Great Gatsby" this story examines a boy whose ambitions become identified with a selfish rich girl. Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as "A sort of first draft of Gatsby." We've got golfing, swanky dinner parties, boating expeditions, fancy cars, and even fancier clothes.What's underneath all the glitter and gold? Not much, material wealth, at the end of the day, isn't all its cracked up to be. This doesn't mean we shouldn't dream big, it just means we have have to remember that nothing's perfect. And that's what makes life so exciting. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: WINTER DREAMS by F. Scott Fitzgerald SOME OF THE CADDIES were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second best grocery-store in Black Bear--the best one was "The Hub," patronized by the wealthy...