F. Scott Fitzgerald and Flannery O’Connor were excellent writers of their time. “Winter Dreams” and “Good Country People” can be compared and made in contrast to each story. The climax in “Winter Dreams” is in contrast to “Good Country People.” When Dexter finds out that Judy is married to Lud Simms and that Lud has cheated on her, Dexter goes through a great change in his life. Dexter had officially lost Judy when at one time he loved her. “He had thought that having nothing else to lose he was invulnerable at last--but he knew that he had just lost something more, as surely as if he had married Judy Jones and seen her fade away before his eyes” (Winter Dreams, 1922). The indifference of Dexter is feeling invulnerable, while Hulga in “Good Country People” was being vulnerable with the salesman, Manly Pointer. The climax of Good Country People happens when Manly Pointer steals Hulga’s leg. The irony of him being evil and her innocence reveals that Hulga has been trapped by her physical disability, as well as her spirituality. Unlike Dexter who used to love Judy, Helga gave into this man that she thought loved her. Helga thought Manly Pointer was a Christian and “just good country people” (Books By Flannery, 1971). In both of these stories, there are epiphanies but they are different. In “Winter Dreams” Dexter learns of Judy being married to a man that has cheated on her. Dexter changes by this news and wishes he were the man that was by her side. In “Good Country People” Hulga’s epiphany happens when Manly Pointer has betrayed her of her faith, and his destruction of her intelligence. Hulga has always thought of everyone as being good, but Manly Pointer ended up not being that kind of person. Even though both of these authors are different genders, they both knew how to write with emotion. Most people probably think that men can’t write as well as women when dealing with emotions. Fitzgeral