An Analysis Of Langston Hughes Winter Dreams
Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. Hughes was one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. Hughes was a man who wanted other people to chase their dreams. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American and story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. They both were outstanding individuals who were important to America and was known for their great work. Hughes poem, “Harlem” and Fitzgerald short story, “Winter Dreams” both spoke strongly about a dream. In “Harlem” Langston Hughes speaks about telling people not to wait and see what a dream turns in to, but to go out there and chase your dream. Furthermore, Hughes uses metaphors of this such as raisins to describe what
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Scott Fitzgerald is writing about a protagonist Dexter just what to accomplish his dream for a golf club. Dexter had an imagination and great desire to defeat the other golf club members who treated to bring him down and didn’t believe in his dream. Furthermore, one day Dexter decided to leave the golf scene as a caddy because of a woman name Judy. In “Winter Dreams” wrote, “The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him.” Dexter then goes to school to follower another dream which is also refused. Dexter keep trying to follow his dream never giving up he kept trying to make something happen. Sparknotes claims: “Dexter, articulate and confident, borrows $1,000 off the strength of his degree and buys a partnership in a laundry. By age twenty-seven, he owns the largest chain of laundries in the upper Midwest.” By not giving in on his dream or waiting to see what had Dexter did everything in his power to make his dream happen. Dexter soon grains a load of fortune and success after leaving his lover Judy behind and selling his laundries and settling in New York. All in all, Hughes poem, “Harlem” and Fitzgerald short story, “Winter Dreams” both was fantastic people who were well known for some of the magnificent work they put out to America at the time being. Fitzgerald wrote about Dexter trying hard to go after his dream, and in Hughes poem, he gives a rundown of explaining what happens to a dream that one’s doesn’t go after. In these two reading,
Scott Fitzgerald is writing about a protagonist Dexter just what to accomplish his dream for a golf club. Dexter had an imagination and great desire to defeat the other golf club members who treated to bring him down and didn’t believe in his dream. Furthermore, one day Dexter decided to leave the golf scene as a caddy because of a woman name Judy. In “Winter Dreams” wrote, “The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him.” Dexter then goes to school to follower another dream which is also refused. Dexter keep trying to follow his dream never giving up he kept trying to make something happen. Sparknotes claims: “Dexter, articulate and confident, borrows $1,000 off the strength of his degree and buys a partnership in a laundry. By age twenty-seven, he owns the largest chain of laundries in the upper Midwest.” By not giving in on his dream or waiting to see what had Dexter did everything in his power to make his dream happen. Dexter soon grains a load of fortune and success after leaving his lover Judy behind and selling his laundries and settling in New York. All in all, Hughes poem, “Harlem” and Fitzgerald short story, “Winter Dreams” both was fantastic people who were well known for some of the magnificent work they put out to America at the time being. Fitzgerald wrote about Dexter trying hard to go after his dream, and in Hughes poem, he gives a rundown of explaining what happens to a dream that one’s doesn’t go after. In these two reading,