A feminist reading of Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams

Abstract

Winter Dreams, one of F· S· Fitzgerald's short stories, tells about a young man's dream about a "golden Girl" Judy Jones. To read the story from a feminist perspective, it exposes misogyny in Fitzgerald's text. Judy's transformation from a beautiful flapper, a rebellious young girl, and a luring Circe, into a meek creature of "angel in the house", indicates that even in the 1920s of American society, women still have no ways out except to surrender to the dominant patriarchal ideology. © 2014 Academy Publisher Manufactured In Finland.