Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Winter Dreams Illustrated Francis Scott Fitzgerald

"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in Metropolitan magazine in December 1922 and later collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926.[1][2] The story, frequently anthologized, [1] is regarded as one of Fitzgerald's finest works "for poignantly portraying the loss of youthful illusions."[3]In the Fitzgerald canon, the story is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster" as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel The Great Gatsby in 1925.[1] Writing his editor Max Perkins in June 1925, Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as "a sort of first draft of the Gatsby ide