Life, Death and Identity as a Matter of Chronology in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Life, Death and Identity as a Matter of Chronology in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Summary/Abstract: In Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" the normal cycle of birth, death and the degenerative process of aging, growing young respectively are reversed, therefore creating an abnormal time frame. The personal past of the individual becomes his present and vice versa. In the present study I will focus my attention on the analysis of the psychological and physical chronology of the main character, pointing out the importance of normality. Time becomes a character in itself, generating a completely different life situation.

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