Emotional Bankruptcy by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald | Published: August 15, 1931

Emotional Bankruptcy Synopsis

"Emotional Bankruptcy" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in The Saturday Evening Post on August 15, 1931. This story is part of the Josephine Perry series. Josephine Perry knows she is beautiful and likes to take advantage of her beauty by having many relationships. Though Josephine kept hopping on from one relationship to another, she longed for a soulmate. And when she met someone who finally fills her expectations, she felt nothing.

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"There's that nut with the spyglass again," remarked Josephine. Lillian Hammel unhooked a lace sofa cushion from her waist and came to the window. "He's standing back so we can't see him. He's looking at the room above."

The peeper was working from a house on the other side of narrow Sixty-eighth Street, all unconscious that his activities were a matter of knowledge and, lately, of indifference to the pupils of Miss Truby's finishing school. They had even identified him as the undistinguished but quite proper young man who issued from the house with a brief case at eight every morning, apparently oblivious of the school across the street.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 into a middle-class family. In 1920, he married Zelda Sayre, and together they lived a vibrant lifestyle that he later used as inspiration for many of his writings. Fitzgerald attended Princeton University but dropped out after two years to enlist in the Army during World War I. Fitzgerald's most famous novel is The Great Gatsby, published in 1925 and still considered one of the most iconic American novels ever. Other notable works by Fitzgerald include This Side Of Paradise, The Beautiful And Damned, and Tender Is the Night. His literary works are often praised for their vivid description of life during the Jazz Age and their exploration of topics such as social class and greed. Find out more about F. Scott Fitzgerald at sevenov.com.