【正文】 roduction The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940). In 1922, Fitzgerald published Tales of the Jazz Age, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Although The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is not the most famous fiction of Fitzgerald, it shows the breaking of American dream, just as his other famous long stories, such as, The Side of Paradise (1920), The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934). Fitzgerald was born in a merchant family on September 24th, 1986. His ancestries were very rich。他的一生 都是越活越年輕。菲茨杰拉德是美國 20 世紀(jì)著名的小說家。 self and society。本文共分為三章。巴頓的人生奇旅》是菲茨杰拉德最著名的短片小說之一。 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，來展示他們的社會地位最終的幻滅。其主要任務(wù)是分析二十世紀(jì)美國夢的破滅對現(xiàn)代人的啟示。 研究路線是從不同的角度對 《 X 杰 X?XX 的 XXXX》中二十世紀(jì)美國夢的破滅進(jìn)行詳細(xì)的闡述，并分析美國夢的破滅對現(xiàn)代人的啟示。他的作品以其獨(dú)特的風(fēng)格真實(shí)地記錄和反映了美國特定歷史時(shí)期里所呈現(xiàn)出的諸多典型特征，所以被謄為“爵士樂時(shí)代的杰出代言人”、優(yōu)秀的“編年史家”及“迷惘的一代”的代表作家。也正是由于他奇特的人生軌跡，本杰明，甚至他的父親、妻子和兒子都生活在一個(gè)悲劇當(dāng)中。s short stories, Alices short stories from the sequence of Fitzgerald’s works published. In the Jazz Age and Fitzgerald’s novels, the breaking of American dream is an eternal topic. The American Dream is based on the ideology that each one， no matter what his origin is， can be successful through his own efforts and by cultivating his qualities. When the thirteen colonies became overcrowded, the settlers began to move west. The opening of the middle and western states increased the sense of hope and faith. The democratic system， first voiced in Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence in 1997, may be traced as the basic attitude of hope and confidence. So during the eighteen century and the nieen century, when America was mainly an agriculture society, the dream was transformed into selfreliance. Since success was seen in a proper position in society, people tried to realize their ideals as much as possible because realization was seen as an important condition for a proper social status. The famous representative of rags to riches in this period is Franklin. Developing to the time of the Jazz Age in the 1920s and 1930s, the American dream of freedom and opportunity also became a dream of material advancement. The desire for wealth and status became almost virtuous pursuit. Most Americans were born with the American dream. They dreamed of making personal achievement, enjoying popular fame, or getting great wealth through their hard work. And any failure in achievement could lead to keen disappointment. And this encouraged a spirit of mutual suspicion of the motives of others and led to cases where obtaining of wealth begins to outweigh all other moral considerations. During the time of the Jazz Age, the American dream was doomed to fail, and this tragedy of failure was to a great extent related to the Consumer Culture at that time. In The Epic of America, Adams Truslow Adams held that “The American dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. The American dream is to be understood as an ethical doctrine that is symptomatic of a crisis in national identity during the thirties. The newly invented dream calls out for a supplement to the outmoded narrative of individual uplift, which had lost its moral capacity to guide the nation during the Depression”. The reflection of the Jazz Age and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button indicates that the 1920s is a tragic age and the major characters in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button are full of tragedy and melancholy. As a love story, it shows how time destroys love and how love revenges people. From the social point of view, this story is against the clock and that is the most distinctive part. It is a story about Benjamin Button, who was born as a seventy years old man and died as a newborn baby. In conclusion, Fitzgerald was one of the most important writers who describe the breaking of American dream. The breaking of American dream of his works was studied by many people。《本杰明第一章分析本杰明與其父親、妻子和兒子的種種矛盾和利益沖突，體現(xiàn)親情夢的不堪一擊。 equality, freedom and democracy of social status。s vanity to pursue pleasure. “Benjamin discovered that he was being more and more attracted by the gay side of life.”8 He danced with the most beautiful and youngers women. He chatted with the most popular women. And he thought they got along with each other well. At the same time, his wife’s beauty was gradually disappearing in Benjamin’s eyes. The dream of Benjamin’s ideal love was of an end. Love should be established on forever things, for instance, responsibility, family and so on. If Benjamin and Hildegarde could be responsible for each other, they would not be separated. However, the fact was that the love between them was died away and could not e back. In this novel, Fitzgerald talked not only the love between Benjamin and Hildegarde, but also the others. “Eternal inertia es to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end.”9 To be true, superficial love is doomed to de destroyed. In fact, Fitzgerald described the same love in his others novels, for example, The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. In his novels, he gave the men a low class and men always loved people a rich and charming girl. In addition, he gave the women a high class, but the women often had a sad ending. This was actually Fitzgerald’s love. 8 Fitzgerald and his wife’s “social role and image in the novels have pletely bee one”.10 This did not mean that Fitzgerald showed his love in novels, but it showed that his value of life could be studied through the contact between his life and works. The breaking of love dream in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was obvious. C. Relation Between Benjamin Button and His son The relationship between Benjamin Button and his son, Roscoe, was very