【導(dǎo)讀】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?；?，來(lái)展示他們的社會(huì)地位最終的幻滅。本論文的基礎(chǔ)條件是文學(xué)家對(duì)菲茨杰拉德以及美國(guó)夢(mèng)的研究結(jié)果。常耀信.1993.《美國(guó)文學(xué)簡(jiǎn)史》.天津:南開大學(xué)出版社.吳建國(guó).20xx.《菲茨杰拉德研究》.上海:上海外語(yǔ)教育出版社.弗朗西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德是美國(guó)20世紀(jì)著名的小說(shuō)家。他不僅親身經(jīng)歷了美國(guó)歷史上最奢華享樂(lè)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。《本杰明·巴頓的人生奇旅》是菲茨杰拉德最著名的短片小說(shuō)之一。頓奇事》講述了本杰明離奇的人生故事。本杰明以七十多歲的老人模樣出生，又以。新生嬰兒的狀態(tài)死亡。他的一生都是越活越年輕。也正是由于他奇特的人生軌跡，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(mèng)的不堪一擊。夢(mèng)的破滅到對(duì)生命的嚴(yán)肅思考。

　　

【正文】 d borne in new life upon its bosom” 5, he was confused by the doctors’ and nurses’ reaction. Mr. Button felt himself sad when he saw his newborn son, “an old man apparently about seventy years of age” 6. At the moment when Benjamin was born, his dream was broken. 6 Whatever Mr. Button had to accept the reality, he treated the old man as a child. Then the contradiction came. Mr. Button bought boy’s clothes for his son, but his newborn son felt the clothes made him like a monkey. This is the first bifurcation between the father and son. But Benjamin promised to his father。 he decided to follow his father’s orders. Mr. Button was trying to treat Benjamin like a normal baby, and he persisted in his unwavering purpose. For example, Mr. Button let Benjamin drink milk and bought a rattle. However, Benjamin was not fit to drink milk, so Mr. Button had to prevail upon to allow his son bread and butter and even oatmeal. As for the rattle, Benjamin jingled it to let his father happy. Later Benjamin found other and more soothing amusements when he was left alone. For instance, he liked to smoke cigars, but this was not allowed by Mr. Button. There were still contradiction and promise between Benjamin and Mr. Button. The relation between Benjamin and Mr. Button is different from the other relations between fathers and sons. Americans pay more attentions about their freedom and democracy. But for Mr. Button, he had to insist his view and restrict his son. He did not want to give Benjamin freedom and democracy. On the contrary, Benjamin seemed under his father’s control and rules, but he did something that his father didn’t like. Both of the son’s and the father’s dreams evaporated. Besides, the Button’s dream disappeared, too. B. Relation Between Benjamin Button and His Wife “It was a geous evening. A full moon drenched the road to the lusterless color of platinum, and lateblooming harvest flowers breathed into the motionless air aromas that were like low, halfheard laughter. The open country carpeted for rods around with bright wheat, was translucent as in the day. It was almost impossible not to be affected by the sheer beauty of the skyalmost” 7 This is a charming description of the setting. The author used personification here to show Benjamin’s emotion. The scenery fully showed Benjamin’s feelings when he met Hildegarde Moncrief. 7 When Benjamin was twenty, he is like a fifty years old man. When Benjamin saw Hildegarde in a party, his first love came. Benjamin’s love dream began. Hildegarde was the daughter of General Moncrief. Besides, she was a very young and charming girl. Although Benjamin was in love with her, he thought he had no courage and hope to get the girl’s love. Otherwise, the goddess of love seemed to help Benjamin. Hildegarde was also in love with Benjamin because she thought Benjamin was mature and that was amazing. Later, Benjamin and Hildegarde were together no matter what others said. Actually, they did not understand each other. Benjamin loved the girl because of her beauty and Hildegarde loved the man because of his age. The author showed the love of that time, a tragedy love. However, the love established in table could not be tested by time. At the beginning, Benjamin was admired her, but as the years passed, when the beauty of his wife has ceased to exist, Benjamin began to feel tired. Finally, Hildegarde was unable to meet Benjamin39。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 interesting. When Roscoe was young, the book described him little. The first time Fitzgerald described Roscoe was that Benjamin did not worship his wife when his wife was thirty five years old, and at that time, his son was fifteen years old. The author did not write too much about Roscoe’s childhood because there was no contradiction between Benjamin and Roscoe at that period. Roscoe was too young to make the plex contradiction with Benjamin. And for Benjamin, when he was at middle age, he was not too old or too young. He was tired of his wife, but he was still a father and he cared his son. With the elapse of the time, Roscoe graduated from Harvard and Benjamin handed the family business