| | I had been assigned the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story Winter Dreams in my English class. While reading the story, I drew parallels between the characters of the book and my life, the way many readers do, and I realized that I actually know someone like the "Judy Jones" of the story.
In Fitzgerald's story, Judy Jones is a femme fatale that can have any man she wants because of her beautiful looks. She does indeed chase after every man she meets and is attracted more to their looks and wealth than she is to the men themselves -- someone who we would call a gold digger in our vernacular. The person that I see when I think about her is someone who realizes that she can bait guys along with a little piece here and there and still keep them all under her fingertips. A person who doesn't fully realize what she does even though she does it all the time. Subconsciously, a bitch.
It sucks to be one of the guys who knows about all of the other guys that are also suckers. That's why I stopped caring and/or trying a long, long time ago. It just wasn't worth it.
By the way, Fitzgerald's story ends with a wonderful poetic justice: Judy Jones marries a Lud Simms (ugly name), who is coincidentally an alcoholic and womanizer who doesn't know how to treat marriage --and his wife-- as sacred, to say the least.
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