Shattered Dreams

Essay #2
Shattered Dreams
In both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” and Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” dreams are used to look into the pasts of the characters and their shattered dreams. In both stories the dreams the characters have are both pleasant and painful, yet explain a lot about the characters within these stories.
In Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams”, dreams are used to describe Dexter’s ambitions; however, they are also the sourc...