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The Vegetable or From President to Postman, more commonly known simply as The Vegetable, is a 1923 play by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is his only play and is based on one of his short story that he developed into a play.

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The Vegetable; Or, From President to Postman is F. Scott Fitzgerald's only play. The 1923 comedy is a political satire in which the ironic stage directions excel.

Jerry Frost has always aspired to become a postman. He feels trapped in his marriage and... Read Full Overview

The Vegetable or From President to Postman, more commonly known simply as The Vegetable, is a 1923 play by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is his only play and is based on one of his short story that he developed into a play.

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NOT FOR SALE IN THE U.S. An oddity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's career, his play 'The Vegetable' was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by his family, realises his dream of ruling the United States... Read Full Overview

"Jerry Frost is thirty-five. He is a clerk for the railroad at $3,000 a year. He possesses no eyebrows, but nevertheless he constantly tries to knit them."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Vegetable (1923)

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This is the "living" room of Jerry Frost's house. It is even-ing. The room (and, by implication, the house) is small and stuffy-it's an awful bother to raise these old-fashioned win-dows; some of them stick, and besides it's extravagant to let in much cold air, here in the middle... Read Full Overview

"Jerry Frost is thirty-five. He is a clerk for the railroad at $3,000 a year. He possesses no eyebrows, but nevertheless he constantly tries to knit them."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Vegetable (1923)

The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman (1923)... Read Full Overview