In this story, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era âa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.â Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this âLost Generationâ been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgeraldâs short fiction.