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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story written by Scott Fitzgerald

in 1922, and included in his book Tales of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald tells the story

of the son of Roger Button, who was born old and ages in revers. As Benjamin

grows younger he falls in love with a woman named Hildegarde with whom he

marries and has a son. Problems arise when Hildegarde continues to grow old

while Benjamin grows young, thing that make his own son hostil towards his

father thinking that he is growing younger on purpose.The story ends with

Benjamin entering first grade, kindergarten and finally dying. The author states

in his praface to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , that his story was

inspired by a remark of Mark Twains, who said that it was a pity that the best

part of life came at the beginning and the worst at lifes end , so the story

attempts to make the story run backward in order to achieve youth at lifes

end, thus growing into the vitality and happiness of adolescence and ending life

without the burden of the past.Fitzgeralds story deals with the experience and

with the mutability of time (past and future), the present being the inclination

to exist in the period. Moreover, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a story

in which death does not seem to be the negative capstone of disillusionment

because time does not move in a normal way in the story. That being said

growing younger means growing physically younger, therefor, having no

memories of the time he was old implaying he does not have any

understanding of life.

Through this passage it is showed that Benjamins life ends in a state of

unawareness and with a sense of peace and fulfillment since he is not aware of

the burden of the time or memory. This story is a sad one because Benjamin

has to act an age he does not have, just like when he was old and he really

wanted just to stay with the other old people and talk because that was the

mind and tastehe was born with, but when he gets younger his mind and body

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gets more active and he is content with playing with other kids, especially with

his nephew. Thinking that life can only be understood backwards but it must be

lived forward means that one can only make sense of the things that have

happened in the past, that one lived, in order to prevent further similar

mistakes and to improve onesforward because life involves one going into the

future, experiencing new things. This story has to be studied in order to get a

better perspective of life. Benjamin died peacefully, without the burden of the

past but the fact that he died without knowing about his family is true too. Also

it must be taken into consideration the quality of life. The fact that all his life he

needed to be someone else and act according to his physical age was not

something easy and not necessary for him as for his wife and son and before

that his parents. What is more, throughout his life Benjamin did not understand

his life backward and lived it forward; thing that made him move through life as

a stranger: he had to adjust to life according to physical, emotional, and

intellectual maturity. He is incapable to view himself in a self-consciousness

maner, moving through life without any memory, living in a perpetual present.