Peggy

In the last few episodes of Mad Men, Peggy, Don Draper’s secretary, is really stepping it up. All the women in the office were called in to test a lip stick line that the company was creating an ad for and Peggy, not wanting to be ‘just another color in a box’ or just one of the colors in a ‘basket of kisses’. The men noticed her and thought that her one liners were very clever and they asked her to be a part of creating the ad to pitch. For the first time in the show we see a woman really step out of the bounds that are set for her by society. Peggy is eager to move forward in with this ad but she is still held down by the world she lives in. She is looked down upon by the other women and even held back by the men. Peggy’s character is constantly battling her desire to step out of the world she’s in and wanting so badly to fit into the world she is a part of. She even finds herself in the arms of Peter, who is a newly wed working at the ad company. This is not the first time she has been with Peter and by the looks of it, it wont be the last. Another sign of this man’s world she is living in. While this goes on with Peggy, we see new developments with Don, whose past has just walked back into his life and is haunting him. He continues to hide these things from his wife and continues to seek solace in the arms of his mistress. He does not want the life he has built himself to be destroyed. But his country, cane switch upbringing is hiding around every corner and we continue to see his flashbacks, letting us into his life a little bit more with each episode.