Download or read book THE VEGETABLE, OR FROM PRESIDENT TO POSTMAN written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vegetable, or From President to Postman is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that he developed into a play. The main character, Jerry Frost is a low-level clerk. He is in an unhappy marriage and throughout the work he is striving for something more, yet he consistently falls short. The setting is both the Midwest and the East. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.