Author : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Release : 1987
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Vegetable, Or, From President to Postman by : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Download or read book The Vegetable, Or, From President to Postman written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play concerns the misadventures of the middle-class striver Jerry Frost. He is a 35-year-old "clerk for the railroad at $35,000 a year. He possesses no eyebrows, but nevertheless he constantly tries to knit them." His marriage to Charlotte (30) is dull, and he is stereotypically hen-pecked by her (cf. Ralph Cramden, Fred Flintstone, Homer Simpson, et al.). We learn in the first act that Jerry wanted to be a postman, but that he somehow blames his wife for missing out on this ambition ...