Curious Case of Benjamin Button

In this story, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era &quote;a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.&quote; Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this &quote;Lost Generation&quote; been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction.