【正文】 n Fitzgerald, more or Jianguo[1], in his book Research of Fitzgerald, summarizes the main content of the short story and evaluates thinks, this seemingly absurd story actually explain that no matter how good things seem to be, they will eventually go to the opposite side..The metaphor of the story is that crisis and disaster are concealed under the surface of peacefulness and matter how beautiful the infront world, it is a fictional illusion which cannot get rid of the the introduction of the book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button translated by Zhang Huili and Tang Yongkuan[2], it is written that the skeleton of the story can make a novel which has been pressed into a short involves money, associated with the inputoutput the stories in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button occur in everyday in a few places, the author cannot help but make the text a running account of daily life and burst out a trace of fairylike glow or absurd consulting some relevant journals, the author also finds some academic theses on appreciation and ments of the short Ran[3], in her paper “Retrograde Time, Spiritual WastelandOn Theme of the Short Story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, points put that the short story reveals the droop and decadence of people?s spiritual life in 1920s of the United States, and the concealed spirit crisis and disaster behind the Xiaoqian[4], in her paper “On Time Consciousness in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, analyzes the author?s time consciousness and the philosophy of life、views on love and the brand of the times reflected from time consciousness, according to the plot of the upside down life in The Curious Case of Benjamin Jinfeng[5], in her paper “The Popular Mouthpiece of the Jazz Age——On Supernatural Element in Fitzgerald?s Works”, writes that “Second, supernatural ponent of performs in the incredible example, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a pletely fictional absurd seemingly absurd story actually explain that no matter how good things will eventually go its metaphor of the story is that crisis and disaster are concealed under the surface of peacefulness and matter how beautiful the infront world, it is a fictional illusion which cannot get rid of the doom.” Song Lina[6], in his paper “On the collapse of the American Dream”, shows that the collapse of the “American Dream is a consistent theme of Fitzgerald?s fantasy story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button deals a serious thinking about life with a 5legendary story: life just likes the collapse of “American Dream”, from longing to achievement and loss in the author tells people through Benjamin?s life that all the surface vanity will disappear, and all the good things will eventually go dream people chasing for is Mirage and rejuvenation cannot bring the eternal Li[7], in her paper “On Magic Realism Color in the Short Story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, analyzes the story by using the means of artistic expressionMagic Realism, thus reveals the crisis and ridicule to the reality behind the fantasy color the abroad research on this short story is minimal, the author can only find a few relevant texts in some academic monographs about example, Curnutt, K[8], in his book The Cambridge Introduction to Fitzgerald, mentions that “not all Fitzgerald?s supernatural stories are so Curious Case of Benjamin Button recounts the biography of a man born into the body of a seventyyearold who grows younger rather than Lawrence Buell[9] suggests, what links these fantastic tales is Fitzgerald?s insistence that ?dreams of a metamorphosed reality are emotional and social necessities which we cannot help but indulge, and that they are in another sense insubstantial, ludicrous, pathetic?”.The studies mentioned above are generalized into two aspects: from text analysis of the new critics and social history studies lay stress on the study of social history and other theories such as time conception rather than magic thesis attempts to make a detailed analysis on the short story by using the theoryMagic Realism, with the purpose of helping readers appreciate the story from a different perspective and know Fitzgerald?s creation of psychological of the ProblemsThe main contents of this thesis fall into three parts: review of Fitzgerald and the short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button。 introduction of Magic Realism。 of specific performance of Magic Realism in the Curious Case of Benjamin thesis attempts to analyze the content of the short story and find specific performance of Magic Realism in Firstly, previous studies of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from both home and abroad will be collected and classified, among which some most representative ones will be the Magic Realism will be 6that, the content of the short story and specific performance of Magic Realism in it will be Outline Fitzgerald and his short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Literature Review Magic Realism distorted affection of a time 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