Thinking About Setting: Winter Dreams

Cover Letter Questions

1. What work or works are you writing on, and why did you choose to write on this work or these works?

I am writing about the story “Winter Dreams” I really liked this story it was the only one I enjoyed reading out of all of Unit 2.

2. What critical question were you exploring in this essay? Did you find this question difficult to answer?

The critical question I was exploring was how setting related to how the main character was feeling. I did not find this difficult at all to answer.

3. How did your understanding of the work(s) about which you are writing change as you wrote this essay? If it did not change, why do you think that was?

It changed a little bit as I wrote because I really just wanted to keep emphasizing on how the setting told the story.

4. What did you find the hardest about your writing process for this essay?

The hardest thing I always find about writing an essay is putting the direct quotes into my own words so the reader of my essay understands my point.

5. What do you see as the essay's strengths and why?

Strengths are hard when you are critiquing your own essay, can’t really answer this.

6. What do you see as the essay's weaknesses and why?

I would say the biggest weakness would be flow of the essay. I changed it twice and still feel that it flows a little weird.

7. What specific feedback would you like from your instructor?

The use of MLA formatting. I used to be very good at it but over the last year I have only used APA because it is what my major requires. I feel really rusty at MLA so I am a bit nervous about the citations.

Shelly Milinichik

Jennie Hensarling

English 200

July 3, 2013

Thinking about Setting: Winter Dreams

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams", the author puts a great deal of emphasis on the use of setting. Scott Fitzgerald choose the setting in a way to describe much how the main character Dexter is...