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The Shrinking Man
  
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The Shrinking Man (Library Binding)

by Richard Matheson (Author)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Science Fiction Misunderstood, May 31 2002
By C. Halloran "Searcher" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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People have often not noticed the significance of the time this was written. This is science fiction, but more importantly it is a social commentary. The shrinking of the protagonist literally is allegorical for the shrinking of the man in the emerging post-War World II corporate climate where men were treated as statistics by their inaccessible superiors rather than as valued producers in the company. The role of man was changing cause a generation of men to feel less than the culture's definition of "a man." Hence, the shrinking.

Understanding this brings a new dimension to Matheson's work. (Matheson, by the way, was a WWII vet experiencing a similar role crisis working for McDonnell Douglas in a job where he felt he actually did nothing, having no contact with the finished product. He was one of the aerospace industry's thousands of new white-collared workers.)

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