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Judy Jones Judy Jones is a shallow and egotistical woman that feeds off the admiration of those around her. Judy exploits her feminine beauty to manipulate people with no care for the consequences that may come to her victim’s. She is displayed like this to exhibit the youthful passions and materialistic tendencies of her goals.
Jody is careless towards people and their feelings. She mainly seems to do what she wants to whomever she wants, whether it is okay or not. Dexter was fourteen when he first laid eyes on Judy Jones, at the country club where he worked as a caddie, and was astonished by her looks at such a young age. “Dexter stood perfectly still, his mouth slightly ajar. He knew that if he moved forward a step his stare would be in her line of vision- if he moved back he would lose his full view of her face. For a moment he had no realized how young she was.” (Fitzgerald 672). As time passed, their live had separated but were to cross again and when Dexter acknowledged her he was stunned by what a beautiful woman Judy Jones has grown up to become and was mesmerized when his eyes meet her elegant appearance. “The quality of exaggeration, of thinness, which made her passionate eyes and down-turning mouth absurd at eleven, was gone now. She was arrestingly beautiful. The color in her cheeks was centered like the color in a picture-it and not a “high” color, but a shaded that it seemed at any moment it would recede and disappear.” (Fitzgerald 674). She would then preside to associate with Dexter and win over his favor.

As Fitzgerald proceeds to reveal Judy Jones illustrates her to be almost god like in beauty. But this can only compliment her true nature, a deceitful woman bound by her shallowness and greed. She would preserver to claim all that she wanted and would go on full attack to sway anyone she needed to in order to accomplish her goal. “Whatever Judy wanted, she went after with full pressure of her charm. There was no divergence of method, no

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