Winter Dreams Characters

Dexter Green, the story’s protagonist, begins the story as a class-conscious teenager in Black Bear, Minnesota, and Fitzgerald chronicles his maturation into a successful New York businessman. Despite this professional growth and achievement, Dexter doesn’t… read analysis of Dexter Green

– Judy, the beautiful daughter of the wealthy Mortimer Jones, is Dexter’s obsessive love interest throughout the story. She first appears as a “beautifully ugly” eleven-year-old girl who tries to order Dexter… read analysis of Judy Jones

Hedrick is one of the wealthy people who plays on the Sherry Island Golf Course in the summers, and one of Dexter’s winter dreams is to defeat Hedrick in a game of golf. According… read analysis of T.A. Hedrick

– A wealthy patron of the Sherry Island Golf Club and Judy’s father. Jones takes particular interest in fourteen-year-old Dexter due to the boy’s exceptional work as a caddie and he is upset to learn… read analysis of Mortimer Jones

– Dexter’s fiancée whom Dexter describes as “light-haired and sweet and honorable, and a little stout.” Unlike Judy, she quickly gives up her other suitors when Dexter asks her to marry him. Both she… read analysis of Irene Scheerer

The nurse who brings eleven-year-old Judy to the golf course the day she meets Dexter. She tries to enlist Dexter’s help to teach Judy how to play golf, though he has already been assigned… read analysis of Hilda