The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Author:Sloan Wilson Thomas Rath works at Rockefeller Center in New York City, and his home happens to be in a near-by Connecticut suburb. His wife, Betsy, and their three children meet him in their battered old Ford when he arrives home from work each evening. Although this novel is about the Rath family, the man in the gray flannel suit is a fairly universal figu... more »re in mid-twentieth-century America. The gray flannel suit is the uniform of the man with a briefcase who leaves his home each morning to make his living as an executive in the near-by city. Tom Rath's wife appreciates the security this job provides, though both she and her husband at times question whether this is the life they really wanted when they were first married.« less