After serving in the US Coast Guard during World War II, he was employed as a reporter for Time-Life, the premier media company at the time. Sloan Wilson was born in 1920 in Connecticut and graduated from Harvard in 1942. The Man in the Grey Flannel S uit by Sloan Wilson was written nearly sixty years ago in 1955 and is considered a classic piece of literature because it exemplifies the struggle we all tangle with no matter what the decade: finding the purpose of our life while trying to balance ambition and family life. Raised in his grandmother’s once grand estate in Connecticut after his father’s untimely death and having returned from the war a changed man, Tom finds it difficult to live in the present because by his own admission, he is either brooding about the past or worrying about the future. Tom Rath is an unhappy 33-year old married man, father of three trying to figure out what to do with his life. And there was the entirely separate world populated by Betsy and Janey and Barbara and Pete, the only one of the four worlds worth a damn. There was the matter-of-fact, opaque-glass-brick partitioned world of places like the United Broadcasting Company and the Schanenhauser Foundation. There was the isolated, best-not-remembered world in which he had been a paratrooper. There were really four completely unrelated worlds in which he lived,…there was the crazy, ghost-ridden world of his grandmother and his dead parents.
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