The Depression In the Gray Flannel Suit

One thing I noticed about The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, both in the film and novel, is that besides offering few examples of working class characters, they never, at least not that I noticed, explicitly mention the Depression. Sure, the novel and film were produced in the fifties, almost twenty years after the height of it, but it seems as if it might at least be mentioned in contrast to the boom of post-war America. The only potential reference we get of it comes from the novel: when Tom is told about his father mismanaging the family’s money (possibly a reference to the crash of the stock market and its aftermath?). I wonder if this is an attempt on Wilson and Johnson’s part to repress or even disavow the economic realities experienced during the Depression. If so, could we view elements of the Depression as attempting to make themselves known in the novel and film, a more subtle version of Tom’s war memories making themselves known in the narrative? In what scenes or moments in the film might we find them, if in fact they do exist?