The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his books today but during his lifetime he was one of the countrys most prolific storytellers. One of his most enduring tales is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button a clever and fantastical satire on ageing. Benjamin Button who suddenly starts ageing backward in 1860 is born an old man. His appearance is dreary and worn at the start of his life but as he gets younger he embraces it. He joins the military starts a business falls in love has children attends college and prep school and as his mental faculties deteriorate enrols in kindergarten before eventually returning to the care of his nurse. The acute social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the greatest voices in American literary history is embodied in this strange and unsettling tale.