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  • This is a story about Benjamin Button, an infant who is born as a 70-year-old man and

  • ages in reverse.

  • Set near the time of the Civil War, when Benjamin is born, his father and mother have a hard

  • time accepting his condition, forcing Benjamin to act his literal age. However, Benjamin

  • acts and thinks like an older man, wanting to dress in a suit and smoke a cigar.

  • After failing to integrate into school, eventually Benjamin begins to notice that he is looking

  • younger. His skin is tightening up and his energy level is increasing.

  • Soon, Benjamin and his father, almost similar in appearance in terms of age, attend a party

  • and he is introduced to a young woman named Hildegarde. The couple soon marries despite

  • Benjamin looking nearly twenty years older than Hildegarde.

  • After fathering a child, Benjamin continues to grow younger. He begins to notice that

  • his interests in the party lifestyle are growing, while his interest in his wife is decreasing.

  • After serving in the army, Benjamin enters college and graduates from Harvard. Meanwhile,

  • his son, Roscoe, has inherited the family hardware business. However, even Roscoe is

  • embarrassed to be seen with Benjamin because of how young he looks.

  • And in the end, after Benjamin attends kindergarten with his own grandchild, he continues to become

  • younger and younger until his mind starts to blank out, resetting back to an infantile

  • status.

  • This story takes an interesting look at a life in reverse, but really magnifies the

  • similarities between the polar ends of a life - the elder and infant years. In both extremes,

  • individuals are highly dependent on extra care.

  • Behind all of the fantasy, this story also comments on the loneliness of being in a family.

  • Benjamin is surrounded by a "family", albeit a distant and apathetic family, yet the narrator

  • of this story tends to place Benjamin alone. He is often the only one looking out for himself.

  • Even in relationships when we would expect some support, like from his parents, wife,

  • or child, he is still the primary source for his own well-being.

  • The ending scene, where Benjamin's mind begins to lose consciousness, is quite sad. He loses

  • memory of his entire life and his world becomes only his crib and nurse.

  • This juxtaposition of life's most polar extremes, birth and death, works wonders at the end.

  • We are left with a child, who represents birth and new beginnings, while also being left

  • with a literal 70-year-old man who is losing his memories and entering death.

  • And so it seems that in the course of a natural life, we enter and leave with nothing, no

  • memories at all.

This is a story about Benjamin Button, an infant who is born as a 70-year-old man and

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F.斯科特-菲茨傑拉德所著的《本傑明-巴頓奇案》--一分鐘讀書報告。 (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Minute Book Report)

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