by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm going to start by saying that I have not seen the movie. With that said, I would like to say the movie is better. A paradox, you might think, but this short story (and thank God it was only a short story) was just plain awful. Fitzgerald, I'm sure, is an excellent writer, but I have nothing of his to compare this to.
Basically, Ben Button is born at age 70 and slowly gets younger. That is the entire story. There is no plot, no conflict, nothing to get over except that he is older so when he is 18 he can't go to college but when he's 50 he can (because 18 made him look 52, so 50 made him look 20). It's a clever idea, based on a conversation Fitzgerald had with Mark Twain, but he didn't turn it into a story, but rather a quick shot at a person's life, and for that the story failed. I have nothing more to say, because there is nothing to say for a story that had nothing in it.
A single star
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