somehow define the internal struggle to find one's self (4). Through the rise of technologies and different ways of life, the spread of war and new perspectives on a global scale, and Bergson's radical notion of time, the modernist writers gained the ability to form new ways of expressing being, memory, and experience. a flux through which Writers of the period reacted strongly to the idea of time as people move and exist. In this thesis I will investigate Bergson's influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald through a reading of his short story "The curious case of Benjamin Button" 2), as well as a Bergsonian analysis of David Fincher's adaptation of the text into his 2008 film The curious case of Button. Two of Bergson's basic concepts Benjamin concerning the nature of time will illuminate different modernist texts as well as Fitzgerald's short story and Fincher's film: the idea of simultaneity, different planes of consciousness co existing, idea of durée, the time or experience of pu feeling outside of chronological and the order. Both of these concepts will illuminate that which may be called "timeless:" the realm where a linear progression of isolated presents is overthrown, and memory, experience, and being form a heterogeneous whole. In my discussion of Fitzgerald's text I will argue that due to the backwards notion of time in "Benjamin Button," where past and future are interchangeable, a Bergsonian analysis will provide a fresh reading of Fitzgerald's short story. Fitzgerald advocates a sense of the "timeless" by having Benjamin age in reverse, by making the old grow into the new. He thus depicts the modernist time period as a metaphorical reversal of the age, implementing a rebirth from the Victorian age to the new, modernist age. In my discussion of Fincher's film I will argue that Benjamin Button signifies an evolution in the time-image in its representation of the "timeless" by making the sheets of the past and present fuse together, and by including scenes that extend into moments of pure duration. My overall goal is a comparative analysis of the manner in which Fitzgerald's story and Fincher's film take on the same basic plot and idea of a man who ages in reverse, how they communicate the "timeless" in different ways and how a Bergsonian analysis of these two works illuminates their contemporary media and notions concerning the nature of time. Wagner, Nathan. Turning Back Time: Duration, Simultaneio, and the Timeless in Fitzgerald and Finch Benjamin Button. Thesis. Georgia State University, 2010. Atlanta: Georgia State U, 2010. Print.