Discussion starters:

• What does the word Winter signify in the title?

• What effect do the authorial intrusions have in this story?

• Isaacs claims that the central image of sports "cannot be totally irrelevant" (202); what importance do you attach to the various uses of sports, in plot and image, in this story?

• Compare and contrast Judy Jones with Irene Scherer.

Critical Sources:

	Isaacs, Neil D. “‘Winter Dreams’ and Summer Sports” The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Approaches in Criticism.  Ed. Jackson R. Bryer.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1982. 199-207.
	Kuehl, John. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

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