The twenties were an amazing time full of hopes, dreams, and for the wealthy parties. Many of the great writers of our time emerged from this area of excitement; perhaps one of the most prominent of these writers was F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald led a life much like that of other young men in his time. He grew up in a household where money was not something that was of great abundance. However, as he grew older he managed to pull himself up and achieve for himself the American dream of rags to riches. He had made himself such a wealthy and famous man through his talent in writing novels and short stories. One of his most famous novels was The Great Gatsby. This book, like most of Fitzgerald's writing, was modeled after the events in his personal life. The Great Gatsby is a story of love and betrayal, lust and infidelity, all of which were the foundation of the twenties. Much like the other authors of his time, all of Fitzgerald's works had a similar theme while still each maintaining its own uniqueness. Within the short story Winter Dreams, by Fitzgerald, there were many of the same themes as that in The Great Gatsby such as infidelity as well as similarities between the characters. As well as having similarities both stories contained distinctive differences such as endings and relationships.
With in these two stories the characters Daisy Buchanan and Judy Jones share similar qualities and characteristics. A reoccurring trait in both women is the idea that the rich do not marry the poor no matter how in love with them they might be. In both The Great Gatsby and Winter dreams, the two leading ladies start out in love with a poor man. Because both women are of wealthy backgrounds they are not able to marry these men and must move on and find another mate. However, in both cases, the poor boy soon became wealthy and eligible to marry. When Daisy was asked by Gatsby why she did not marry him before she replied, " Rich girls don't marry poor boys.