Winter Dreams Sparknotes

In the short story “Winter Dreams” was set in Minnesota where love is about to take a turn. In the short story winter dreams, Dexter Green, son of the owner of the second-best grocery store in Black Bear, Minnesota. The spring begins to thaw and the first golfers brave the course. Dexter imagines beating the golf club’s most esteemed members. At work, he walks into Judy Jones, who, attended by her harbor, asks Dexter to carry her clubs. Dexter can’t leave his post, and Judy gets angry and tries to strike her nurse with her clubs. When the caddy-master promptly returns and Dexter is free to be Judy’s caddy, he quits. Dexter is a fourteen-year-old boy that’s confident in his dreams. Throughout the story Dexter paved his way to successful ambitious future of wealth.
Dexter goes to state school for a more esteemed eastern, where his financial resources are stretched. He wants to have luxury, but his desires are denied because of money. After Dexter graduated, articulate and confident, borrows $1,000 off the strength of his degree and buys a partnership in a laundry. By age twenty-seven, he owns the largest chain of laundries in the upper Midwest. He sells the business and moves to New York.

At age twenty-three, Dexter is given a weekend pass to the Sherry Island Golf Club by Mr. Hart, for whom Dexter used to caddy. At the fifteenth green, while the group searches for a lost ball, Mr. Hedrick is struck in the stomach by Miss Jones, who wishes to play through and doesn’t realize that she has struck another player. She hits her ball and continues on, as the men alternately praise or criticize her beauty and forward behavior. The peaceful scene is disturbed by the roar of Judy’s motorboat. She has abandoned a date who believes that she is his ideal, and she asks Dexter to drive the boat so that she can