【正文】 弗朗西斯他不僅親身經(jīng)歷了美國(guó)歷史上最奢華享樂 的時(shí)代的生活，而且以敏銳的目光，審視著那個(gè)時(shí)代所發(fā)生的一切。巴頓奇事》講述了本杰明離奇的人生故事。 本文主要分析《本杰明第二章分析了本杰明父親 、本杰明和本杰明妻子各自地位的變化，來(lái)展示 20 世紀(jì)美國(guó)人對(duì)光榮的社會(huì)地位的錯(cuò)誤認(rèn)知，以及他們的社會(huì)地位最終的幻滅。 Hall dream and disillusionment。 however, people only study his long and major novels and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was not studied by people from the aspect of the breaking of American dream. 本科生畢業(yè)論文 題目 ： 初論 《 X 杰 X?XX 的 XXXX》中 XX夢(mèng)的破滅 作者姓名： XXX 指導(dǎo)教師： XXX 所在學(xué)院： 外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院 專業(yè)（系）： 英語(yǔ) 班級(jí)（屆）： 20XX 屆 完成日期 :20XX 年 4 月 12 日 On the Breaking of American Dream in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button By Ren Xianhui Prof. Gao Tianzeng, Supervisor A Thesis Submitted to the . Committee in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English Department of Foreign Language College, Hebei Normal University April 12, 20xx iii Abstract F. Scott. Fitzgerald is a famous novelist in American twentieth Century. With unique style， his works truly record and reflect a lot of typical characteristics in the American specific historical period. So he is hailed as “the brilliant spokesman in the Jazz Age, excellent Chronicle and the representative writers of the lost generation. He not only personally experienced the most luxurious and indulged life in the American history, but also looked at what is happening in that era with the sharp eyes. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was one of the most famous short storied of Fitzgerald. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button told a story about Benjamin’s fantastic life. Benjamin was born as a seventyyearold man and died like a newborn baby. He became younger and younger all his life. And because of his strange life, Benjamin lived a tragedy life, as well as his father, wife and son. This thesis analyses the breaking of American dream in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. This thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter shows that the dream of family love is too weak to be broken through the different kinds of contractions and conflicts between Benjamin and his father, wife and son. The second chapter reflects the wrong cognition of the Americans about the honorable reputation and eventually reveals the breaking of their social status, by analyzing the status changes of Benjamin, his father and his wife. The third chapter analyses the breaking of American dream in the view of Benjamin and his father, and further analyses the thought of life from the breaking of American dream. Key words: Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button American dream iv 摘 要 弗朗西斯 他不僅親身經(jīng)歷了美國(guó)歷史上 最 奢華享樂 的時(shí)代的生活，而且以敏銳的目光，審視著那個(gè)時(shí)代所發(fā)生的一切。巴頓奇事》講述了本杰明離奇的人生故事。 本文主要分析《本杰明第二章分析了本杰明父親、本杰明和本杰明妻子各自地位的變化，來(lái)展示 20 世紀(jì)美國(guó)人對(duì)光榮的社會(huì)地位的錯(cuò)誤認(rèn)知，以及他們的社會(huì)地位最終的幻滅。 however, the girl’s father said that the poor boy had no choice to marry his daughter. Then Fitzgerald joined the army in the summer of 1917 and yet he did not be appointed to go to the battlefield. In July, 1918, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayrethe little daughter of the Supreme Court justice in Alabama. To marry Sayre, he strived to make money to let his wife live a rich life. Jazz age was the ten years that Fitzgerald and Sayre lived in an easy and luxurious life. But good time do not last long, Sayre was diagnosed schizophrenia. For his wife and daughter, Fitzgerald had to write for Hollywood for the high payer, on the other hand, he could not endure that his works were revised. What is the worse, the entire world sank into great depression in 1929 and the Fitzgerald time was lost. His works were not paid attention. At the same time, he began to drink excessively and he defaulted to hand in the manuscripts. As a result, periodical offices and newspaper offices stopped to appoint the manuscripts successively. On December 21st, 1940, Fitzgerald died for the reason of heart attack caused by the long time intemperance. Before his death, he went bankrupt and required to hold “the cheapest funeral” in his testament. Actually, all of Fitzgerald’ life 2 was a breaking of American dream. He did his best to live in the high class。 on the contrary, the gap between rich and poor was increasingly obvious. Affected by the American dream, people crowded into the big cities and wanted to achieve success, wealth and social status relying on their own hard work. However, under the cruel social reality, the American dream turned into bubble shadow and the people of this time were lost and confused. In addition, because of the impact of economic and the materialism around all the America, people of all the classes were running for the money. As a result, the moral decayed, the value was lost, capitalism39。 his wife accepted him first, but they were finally separated. The misunderstanding and rejection between persons fully showed the inequality. The dream of emotion broke. A. Relation Between Benjamin Button and His Father “The Roger Button held an enviable position, both social and financial, in antebellum Baltimore. They were related to the This Family and That Family, which, as every Southerner knew, entitled them to membership in that enormous peerage which largely populated the Confederacy.”3 The beginning of the novel not only laid out many details for the birth of Benjamin, but also prepared for the breaking of Roger Button’s American dream. Baltimore is an important city in the south of America and it was regarded as the capital city instead of Philadelphia in the war. In this important city, the Roger Button has accumulated the wealth and the status. So when their first baby was ing, they decided to let him born in the hospita