Lines 136–142: What does Fitzgerald mean by "stuff" in line 140? Explain what the reader learns from the direct address and flash forward in these lines that could not have been inferred from the narrative to this point. What type of shift does the section break signal?

Fitzgerald meant the ‘contents’ of the winter dreams remained. The reader went further to learns that Dexter makes decisions in his life based on his winter dreams.

Therefore the section which was been break in the story tend to signals a shift in the topic of the story because the topic shifts from how the winter dreams affects Dexter to what the winter dream has in it.

Explanation:

Fitzgerald meant the ‘contents’ of the winter dreams remained without been changed. The reader went further to learn that Dexter makes decisions in his life based on his winter dreams or the winter dreams he experience.

Therefore the section which was been break in the story tend to help signals a shift in the topic of the story because the topic shifts from how the winter dreams affects Dexter to what actually the winter dream tend to has in it.

hold on ill find it

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,