The title, "A Teenager's Dreams," is, as usual, important when considering the story as a whole. The protagonist clearly is not a teenager, although each of his dreams is a combination of teenage fantasy and teenage nightmare. I intended these dreams to point to the ways in which his relationship with Dina was not only immature, but destructive in his ignorance about the events unfolding around him, and concerning him. Of course it's also tied up with his inability to interpret his surroundings (also indicated by the lack of description of his surroundings when, for example, he's walking back and forth through the house).The original story was divided into three sections, each beginning and ending with Will in his car, entering and leaving Dina's house. I was also interested in portraying him as not only uncomfortable in the realm of the women (with Dina and Luann at the kitchen table, in Dina's bathroom, watching Dina garden), but also not entirely at ease with the easy-going machismo of Joe and Russ. Will's paralyzing self-consciousness around them stems partly from his secret affair with Dina, but also from a constant uncertainty about his own performance (basketball, catching the beer can, etc.) which is connected to his sexual performance by the insertion of the Miss America dream, the Sexual Olympics dream, and the Exgirlfriend Auction dream. His inability to physically participate in the events around him also leads into his unwillingness to emotionally participate in his relationship with Dina. The discourse of relationships, even friendships, is completely foreign to him and the attempts he makes (which he thinks are great strides towards self-revelation) are unthinkingly dismissed. I like to think of Dina a woman who began an affair out of something resembling boredom, and maintained it because she couldn't bear to hurt Will's feelings. She has her act together -- she owns the house, pushes Russ around a bit, and looks forward to getting married. Will clearly believes that he is in love with her, although his perception of love is undeniably sexual rather than cerebral or emotional, as are his dream-images of his former lovers and, even, of his mom. Will's final "dream," of Dina's pregnancy, is of course not a dream at all, and has been foreshadowed from the beginning (his violent illness early in the story, Dina's insistence that he is unaware of all the factors in their relationship, etc.). Not only is Will unwilling to accept responsibility for the pregnancy, which is at least suspected to be his, but he is unwilling to even accept its existance in reality. By relegating it to a dream, he is, we suppose, able to walk back up the driveway and into his house without another thought.