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By F. Scott FitzgeraldIntroduction of F. Scott FitzgeraldF?司各特?菲茨杰拉德(1896-1940) was born in (圣保罗), Minnesota(明尼苏达州) , in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he got married, and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera (里维埃拉), ing a part of the American expatriate(流放) circle that included Gertrude Stein(格特鲁德·斯坦因), Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos(约翰·多斯·帕索斯). Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces(杰作) include The Beautiful and Damned(美丽与诅咒), The Great Gatsby(了不起的盖茨比), and Tender Is the Night(夜色温柔). He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty—four while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon(最后一个巨头).Character introduction?Benjamin Button:main character, a man who have a back forward life.?Roger Buttons:Benjamin’s parents?Hildegarde Moncrief:Benjamin’s wife?Roscoe Button: Benjamin’s son“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who ages in reverse: He is born a feeble 70-year-old and es younger as the years progress. This faithful graphic-novel adaptation chronicles Benjamin Button‘s many adventures: He falls in love with a woman who ages normally , starts a family, and establishes a essful his later years, he attends Harvard(哈佛) as a student and plays on their football team. By the time he is an old man, Benjamin Button resembles(像) a newborn baby. And then he remembered the noons and nights he breathed and over him there were soft mumblings and murmurings that he scarcely heard, and faintly differentiated smells, and light and their also a movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” adapted from this movie was directed by David Fincher(大卫·芬奇).In the movie, the director changed a lot of the book. He added the part of anti-war,the inside world of a unusual man——all the people around him is getting older and leave him alone.