The I.O.U. by Scott Fitzgerald — Review

The story “The I.O.U.” by Scott Fitzgerald is a kind of parody of cowards in the publishing industry. Maybe Fitzgerald described his personal experience. He had 122 rejection notices for his first works!

There's a lot of humor in the story - including light-hearten quips at publishers, spiritualists and newspaper reporters. There's also more serious ideas: what it would be like if somebody was declared as dead in World War I and then it was found out that his relative gained money on his (fictitious) death.

Fitzgerald took the plot about ​​a young man crippled by war. This line was developed by the author in his most famous novel “The Great Gatsby”.



Here is the link to the text of the story:
http://fitzgerald.narod.ru/flappers/158e-the_iou.html