"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in "Metropolitan Magazine" in December 1922, and was collected in "All the Sad Young Men" in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest stories and is frequently anthologized. In the Fitzgerald canon, it is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster," as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel "The Great Gatsby" in 1925.<br/><br/>Writing his editor Max Perkins in June 1925, Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as "A sort of first draft of the Gatsby idea."