Winter Dreams

While “Winter Dreams” features many time jumps into the future, there is only one flashback in the story, which takes place on the day that Dexter decides to quit his job as a caddy at the golf course. The following passage captures how Fitzgerald shifts the narrative from the afternoon of that day back to the morning:

Dexter handed in his “A Class” badge, collected what money was due him from the caddy master, and walked home to Black Bear Village. “The best——caddy I ever saw,” shouted Mr. Mortimer Jones over a drink that afternoon. “Never lost a ball! Willing! Intelligent! Quiet! Honest! Grateful!”

The little girl who had done this was eleven […] She had come eagerly out on to the course at nine o’clock with a white linen nurse and five small new golf-clubs in a white canvas bag.

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