The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit By Sloan Wilson

[YOUR NAME] [YOUR PROFESSOR 'S NAME] [CLASS NUMBER] [DATE OF ASSIGNMENT] [YOUR NAME] [YOUR PROFESSOR 'S NAME] [CLASS NUMBER] [DATE OF ASSIGNMENT] The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Recognition and Responsibility The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson is a novel filled with themes of depression and disillusionment as a result of living in a Capitalist society . The main character , Tom chronicles his life experiences in the world of business and the resulting impact of family neglect in lieu of family legacy , through

success . Money is the center of the novel 's conflict and the career that Tom enters begins to interfere with his family . The cost of estrangement from his family becomes too much to bear and he eventually decides that the ultimate social responsibility is spending more time with those he loves . But economics are not the only cause for the novel 's protagonist Tom feelings of despair . The responsibility he feels towards his work and family along with the responsibility he feels toward his actions in the military from his past collide in his life to confuse him . Most importantly , ideals of achievement and success inherited from his grandmother serve to burden Tom 's ability to grasp the concepts of what success and responsibility entail . The alienation of Tom from his family in such a Capitalist culture and his constant striving for success culminate in this novel to illustrate that responsibility to self and family as a duty and ideals such as the...