As wealthy business partners, they attend prestigious dances together. When Benjamin is 20, he looks strikingly like his father. Boarding a train for Baltimore, he decides that he will go to Harvard someday.īack at home, Benjamin joins his father’s hardware business, becomes wildly successful over the next few years. As Benjamin leaves, students follow him and shout insults, telling him to go try this crazy stunt at Harvard. The registrar thinks he’s a strange older man posing as a college freshman, so he runs him out of his office. He runs out of hair dye shortly after arriving at Yale University, where he has been admitted as a freshman. Button to see his son acting like a little boy.īy the time Benjamin turns 18, he doesn’t look quite so old, though he still needs to dye his hair. He does make a point of breaking something in the house each day, knowing that it pleases Mr. Still, all Benjamin wants to do is read an encyclopedia, smoke cigars, and chat with his grandfather. Button dyes Benjamin’s hair, trims his beard, and tries to force Benjamin to live like an average child. The Buttons eventually decide to name their son Benjamin. Button rushes out to a clothing store to buy baby clothes for his son, though Benjamin looks ridiculous in them. Mortified by the idea of being seen in public with Benjamin, Mr. Button to take his son home as soon as possible, since the baby’s unusual condition could threaten the hospital’s reputation. Button encounters the same hostility from the nurses, and he soon sees why: his newborn son looks and acts like a 70-year-old man. He storms away and says that his reputation as a doctor has nearly been ruined. Button when the men run into each other outside the hospital. The Buttons are respected members of Baltimore society, so it’s surprising that their family doctor, Doctor Keene, brushes off Mr. It’s 1860, and Roger Button’s wife has just given birth to their first child.
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