“…Fitzgerald would not have had any knowledge of Spengler when he wrote “Benjamin Button.” According to Lehan, he probably came into contact with the German author's concepts in France around the summer of 1924 when he was composing The Great Gatsby (137). The impact of Spengler on Fitzgerald is evidenced by the reverberation of his concepts in the latter's later work: Gatsby ; Tender Is the Night ; Philippe, Count of Darkness ; and The Last Tycoon , as demonstrated by Lehan. Similarly, Kirk Curnutt identifies traces of Spengler in Philippe , illustrating the way that, in this uncompleted work, Fitzgerald “would have catalogued the heroic traits [he] believed necessary to redeem modernity from fascism” (102).…”