Summary

In Chapter 4, when Benjamin turned 18, he looked like "a man of fifty" (16). Because of his more youthful appearance, Roger "sent him to Connecticut" to take the Yale College entrance examinations (16). Benjamin passed, and was accepted. The day he was meant to visit the Yale registrar, Benjamin ran out of hair dye. Afraid of being late, he visited the registrar without the dye. At the office, the registrar did not believe he was Benjamin Button, nor that he was 18, and sent him away. Everyone in the college heard he was an unstable old man attempting to fraudulently enter college as a freshman. Students laughed and jeered as he left campus. Benjamin repeatedly insisted they would "regret this" (18).

In Chapter 5, when Benjamin turned 20, he began working "for his father in Roger Button & Co., Wholesale Hardware" (19). Now resembling one another, Benjamin and Roger "passed for brothers...