The two stories "The Darling" by Anton Chekhov and "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald both revolve around love. Olenka in "The Darling" and Dexter in "Winter Dreams", both make sense of the world around them through love. However in the case of Olenka, love is a means of having opinions for herself, which she derives from those whom she loves, while for Dexter, love helps him to be attuned to life and view the …showed first 75 words of 1056 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1056 total…her own. She had no intentions in life, but lived her life by completely devoting herself to the life of the people she loved. In the case of Dexter, he imagined Judy's world of something worth aspiring to and he wanted to occupy the world she was occupying. When he lost her, he did not lose her physical presence as it did not matter to him, but, in fact, he lost his desires and dreams.