Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922) and David Fincher’s film of the same title (2008) tell the curious story of a man who is born old and ages backwards. Fitzgerald and Fincher challenge their audiences to consider different themes and ideas throughout their texts and utilise different techniques to do so. While the stories of the two texts remain similar, they differ in their effectiveness. Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s short story version and David Fincher’s movie, has a big difference in the physical appearance of Benjamin Button at birth and how the different characters play a role in his life. The short story describes Button *USE QUOTE IN HERE* as an old man with a long grey beard whose legs hang from the hospital’s baby crib. However, in the movie, Button is small as an average baby but appears to be a septuagenarian with aged wrinkled skin. Another distinction that immensely changes the story is Benjamin Button’s cognitive ability. In the book, when born, Button …show more content…
Baltimore is particularly important to the story for Fitzgerald’s social critique. As he tells us of the Buttons, "they held an enviable position, both social and financial, in Baltimore. Fitzgerald sets the Buttons in a city where social status really matters; where they obsession with society, reputation, and image. On the other hand, Fincher’s setting is in New Orleans where he got brought up at a nursey home after getting left on the door stop because his father was ashamed of how he looked. Benjamin was taking in by the nurses there and was well loved, he fitted right in at the nursey home with all the other elderly people and didn’t get judged on how he looked because he was one of them. The nursey was the first placed he met Daisy, and that’s when his life changed from