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Chapters 1 - 2

· The following version of this short story was used to create the lesson plan: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Dehli Open Books, 2021.

·.F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is told from the point of view of an unidentified first person narrator and written in the past tense.

· In Chapter I, the narrator states how unusual it is for a baby to be born in a hospital in 1860, as most are born at home.

· Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button are “fifty years ahead of style” when they decide to have their baby in a hospital (1).

· The Buttons were well off and well connected to the other leading families in ante-bellum Baltimore, Maryland.

· Since this baby was the Buttons’ first, Mr. Button was nervous, as would any first-time father be.

· Mr. Button hoped the baby would be a boy...

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