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773 words, approx. 3 pages
 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson, is a novel about the American search for purpose in world dominated by business. Tom and Betsy Rath share a struggle to find contentment in their hectic and material culture while several other... 
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 The Washington Post The Man With No Gray Flannel Suit
12/19/1993: 4,747 words, approx. 16 pages One evening last summer, Norris Dickard, 29 years old, stood on a bridge over the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, gloomily contemplating his future. Norris, a genial man with thick, dark brown hair, had been virtually unemployed since he'd moved from Boston to look... summary from source:
The Washington Post The Man in the Gray Flannel Zoot Suit
03/22/1999: 953 words, approx. 3 pages In this age as in all others there are many things it is exceedingly difficult to be, but surely nothing is harder than to be an old-fashioned boy; no doubt it is equally hard to be an old- fashioned girl. Ours is an hour...
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 Critical Essay by Gerald Weales
360 words, approx. 1 pages
The faceless figure on the dust jacket of Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is apparently supposed to imply Everyman. The title of the novel and the publicity that preceded its publication seem to insist that Tom Rath, the novel's hero, is universal, at least to the minimal extent that he represents the young veterans struggling suavely to make their mark in the world of Madison Avenue. Briefly, the plot is this: Tom Rath, the assistant to the director of the Schanenhauser Founda... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John Mcnulty
326 words, approx. 1 pages
As calm and serene a garb as a man can wear is the standard gray flannel suit of commerce, a habiliment supposed to betoken solidity of character tastefully touched with quiet nonchalance. Calmness and serenity, however, frantically elude Tom Rath … [the title character of "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"], and his inward solidity of character peeps forth, in quite pat fashion, only at the end of the narrative. Rath killed seventeen men as a paratrooper in action in World War II. In R... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Louis O. Coxe
321 words, approx. 1 pages
Without trying to be sociological or symbolical, Mr. Wilson has got more of the late 'forties and early 'fifties into ["The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"] than any other writer I know of; he has captured something of the unease of the time, its neurotic worry and speed and pressure. Yet Mr. Wilson is never portentous nor grimly profound; he writes fiction, not a Ph.D. thesis, and he has wit…. The story concerns a not so very young couple and in particular the husband...
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