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Foreshadowing
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Explanation and Analysis:
“Winter Dreams” is a short story in the Realist and Modernist literary genres. Realist literature is centered on capturing people and the world as they really are. (This is opposed to Romanticism, a literary movement that sought to tell unbelievable tales of heroism, love, and more.) Fitzgerald intentionally renders much of the setting of “Winter Dreams” true-to-life, such as the fierce Minnesota winters, the tense class and gender dynamics that took place on golf courses in the early 20th century, and the fact that many men fought in World War I (as Dexter does in the story).
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