Critical Essay by Hope Hale Davis
It is a surprise to discover … unflinching honesty in Sloan Wilson's What Shall We Wear to This Party? The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Twenty Years Be...
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Critical Essay by John Mcnulty
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 wit...
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Critical Essay by John Chamberlain
Back in the 1950's Sloan Wilson wrote a novel, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," that caught the essence of what was then becoming known as t...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Weales
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 t...
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Critical Essay by Louis O. Coxe
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 Flanne...
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The story starts out in the main character introducing himself as Tom Rath. Tom was also a recruit in World War II. Tom Rath is a minor assistant to Ralph Hopkins, the president of the United Broadc...
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