It is clear from the title of this excellent short story
by Fitzgerald that the seasons, or at least winter, will have a serious role in the
action. It is in the opening paragraphs that we are given a description of how the
seasons impact Dexter and which seasons are more important to him. Note how the changing
of seasons changes Dexter:
Dexter knew that there was something dismal
about this Northern spring, just as he knew there was something gorgeous about the fall.
Fall made him clinch his hands and tremble and repeat idiotic sentences to himself, and
make brisk abrupt gestures of command to imaginary audiences and armies. October filled
him with hope with November raised to a sort of ecstatic
triumph...
It is clear then
that fall, with the hope of the approaching winter, makes Dexter feel more than he is -
it makes him feel that he is an important man of value and commanding respect and
loyalty from "imaginary audiences." It is no wonder then that because of this affinity
he has with winter that he chooses to attach his "dreams" to this season - cold and
elusive as they will turn out to be.
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