The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Essay

An old man being born is kind out of the normal. In the story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” By F. Scott Fitzgerald an old man had been born. During the story we learn about Ben and something that went a little wrong. Ben is born an old man and proceeds to get younger as time goes on. In the story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” F. Scott Fitzgerald includes characters and conflict so the readers understand Benjamin and the situations within the story. First of all, the character Benjamin Button is developed in the beginning because he will become the main character, and the readers had to understand him. We had learned about what Benjamin looks like. He looks like “about seventy years of age. His hair was almost white, and from his chin dripped a long smoke-coloured beard but the size of a baby”(3). Benjamin was born an old baby, and they are trying to give us an idea of what he looks like to understand him. Additionally we also learn about his attitude. He said “‘I wish you’d get me out of this place -- or, at least, get them to put a …show more content…
Two important conflicts are Roger v.s Society and Roger v.s Dr.Keene. Which develops Roger’s character. We experience an external conflict between Roger and society. Roger said, “What will people say? What must I do?” (4) Roger’s worried about getting judged by society for his son being born an old man. In fact we also experience another external conflict, but with Roger and Dr.Keene. Roger and their family doctor were talking after Benjamin was born. Before Roger had met Benjamin; Dr. Keene had said, “ I don’t want to see you or any of your relatives again!” (2) This gives Roger an idea something bad had happened to his son he hasn’t met yet because there family doctor had decided to walk out on them. This can give Roger an idea something went wrong with his son. Something out of the normal. After learning about the conflicts we learned a lot about Roger’s