When Marilyn Monroe died in Chapter 9 of the second season of Mad Men ("Six Months Leave"), all women working at Sterling Cooper is in mourning, weep and mourn, alone or in group, disappearance of blond ambition. All but one: Peggy Olson.
Peggy is undoubtedly the major female character Mad Men, the only one of the players who has been slowly gaining space in a male world and sexist, and also the one that has evolved the 50 chapters is standard.
Peggy challenges the traditional roles that society assigns, and does so from the first season, in which final renunciation of her role as mother to pursue their professional and personal ambitions. Since its entry into Sterling Cooper as secretary of Don Draper to their prominent role in the creative department of the Sterling Cooper almost newborn Draper Pryce, Miss Olson is gaining in confidence and poise to reach into the right hand of Don . Peggy is ambitious in its proper place, takes initiative, asking for a raise, and calls for a firm with conviction but, above all, do not be seduced by the pomp of the advertising world and remains loyal, always and in spite of their differences, Don Draper.
Is your relationship with him one of the most interesting in this drama. Don was the only one who knew what happened to Peggy during her floor while she took a wrong cable after a car accident that could expose one of his many infidelities. It is possible that through knowledge of some of its secrets began to emerge that mutual "respect " between the two intensifies in the magnificent episode "The Suitcase , one of the most intense and tragic of all Mad Men .
Peggy, who unknowingly shared with Don one of the toughest moments the life of this, he realizes that perhaps the two share more things than it sounds, because deep both are lonely souls, ideal representatives of the conflict between individual desires and social expectations that presides over the whole plot . Him to live permanently attached to his identity crisis, and she, being different and claim the time in a world that is not yet quite ready to recognize their worth.
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