Episode Four

This weeks episode of Mad Men was really interesting. We are starting to see different, deeper sides of characters and how they interact with the world outside of the advertising company. Last episode we watched as Don became fed up with the upper middle class life he was leading and just had to escape on his own for a while. During this episode we see more into the life of one of the juniors working for the company under Don. We see into the life of his marriage and his family. In the advertising world in the first few episodes it looks like this man is on top of the world and one of the top dogs but slowly we are learning that he is nothing aside from his name he has inherited from his family. On the outside this man looks like he has it all together and he is perfectly set up but when his brand new bride approaches him about an apartment she found that is way out of their price range we see his power as a man in starts to diminish. His wife does not know the position she has put him but she encourages him to go to his parents to ask for help to buy this apartment. His manhood is being stripped away and he has no control over it. For the first time in his life it seems that his role as a man is being shaken and he is left unsure how to deal with this new found loss of power. When he approaches his parents for money we learn the power of his last name and how his father feels as though he is not living up to the family name by working in advertising. |  There are so many cultural things that happen in this show that it is hard to capture it in words and really explain to anyone without them watching. I would really encourage any of you to watch it. It is so well done!