Miss Peggy was pretty bland when she first came out. Don's new secretary, from Brooklyn, graduated from secretary school, with a rustic hairstyle and a slightly full waist. In terms of beauty, sexiness, and being a person, she is far inferior to Joan, the secretary and general manager; in terms of superior background and good fortune, she is completely defeated by her colleague Pete's little princess wife, Trudy. Dealing with people and things is often blunt, and even trying to send ambiguous signals to the boss is so clumsy. Apart from being young, there is nothing to like about it.
Originally, it was easy to fall into the category of "a pile of office female secretaries", maybe show a few faces and then be replaced by Don's next young secretary, but who knows at the end, she is the one in the show. Thousands of doted on the winner of life.
In the final season, Peggy became the creative director of the combined old and new owners, leading all creatives including former boss Don. Although she was a little guilty when she was commanding Don, she was no longer the cramped little girl she used to be. From one of the many female secretaries, to the only female copywriter, to having her own office, to jumping to a rival company, to finally becoming a mentor she once followed and admired, Peggy has gone through a long, hard, extraordinary journey With different paths, she has been pushing herself forward. The struggles, confusions, and the life she gave up for her career along the way are almost unavoidable contradictions for women who choose self-realization. When she finally reached the pinnacle of her career, she was still alone. Seeing that she was about to turn 30, she finally burst into tears in the office on weekends. The only audience was Don, who brought her to the heights she is today.
Don is Peggy The most important person in your career. When Peggy, who had just arrived, was still imprisoned by traditional prejudice, he pushed her hand away and told her, "I'm your boss, not your boyfriend", completely eliminating the possibility of all peach-colored incidents and closing that one. The most easily broken paper window in the era opened a real door for Peggy.
I liked the episode where Peggy first came out, the cosmetics client brought a new series of lipsticks for the secretary girls in the company to try on the color, when the excited girls you crowded me and rushed to apply various colors on your lips, yes While wiggling around in the mirror and admiring herself, Peggy sat quietly in a corner by herself, without trying any lipstick, and watched other people lively with some embarrassment from beginning to end. The men of the creative team sat in the observation room on the other side of the one-way glass, watching and commenting on each girl with great interest, just like watching female monkeys in a circus. Only the older Freddie, Peggy's other workplace, Bole, noticed this different girl. After the color test, he asked Peggy to hand him a trash can, which was full of facial tissue with lip prints, and Peggy handed it over. , while muttering inadvertently: "Here is your basket of kisses." Freddie's eyes lit up, and then asked her, "Which color do you like?" She replied: "The color I liked was taken away by someone else." Freddie continued. When asked, "Then why don't you pick another color", Peggy "I'm very picky. I don't think any woman wants to be just one of a hundred colors in the same box."
Peggy is not just the hundred One part, she doesn't even belong in that box, after she got a job offer for a lipstick ad, office queen Joan had this conversation with her:
Joan: I heard you were being considered for an account because a client's wife saw you and thought it would be okay if he worked with you.
Peggy: You know, you're not a stick.
Joan: And yet I never wonder what men think of me. You are hiding a very attractive young girl under too much lunch .
Peggy: I know what men think of you. That you're looking for a husband. And that you're fun. And not in that order.
Joan: Peggy, this isn't China. There's no money in virginity.
Peggy: I'm not a virgin.
Joan: No. Of course not.
Peggy: I just realized something. [starts to tear up a little] You think you're being helpful.
Joan: Well I am trying, dear.”
as a box The most eye-catching red color, Joan's understanding of the rules is exactly where she is good at dancing. The unspoken manipulation of male chauvinism has made her taste the sweetness, so she can't understand why Peggy ignores the rules and wastes herself. "Young and attractive" is a great time. And Peggy responded to Joan's puzzlement a little excitedly. She vaguely felt that there was not only one choice, but she was not sure, so she quickly turned on the mode of self-defense.
In the 15 years after the end of World War II, the surest choice for the vast majority of American girls is the "Suburban housewife" in the picture perfect, golden age America, liberated by convenient housework aids and free from disease Threats and risks when giving birth to babies, they are healthy, beautiful, educated, they only need to worry about husband and child, keep the house clean every day, the floor is spotless, pick up the child from school, wear bright umbrella skirts and high heels , waiting for Mr. to come home and give her a kiss. In the feminist classic "The feminine mystique", author Betty Friedan writes: "The feminine mystique says that the highest value and the only commitment for women is the fulfillment of their own femininity." The mystery of women that puzzled her, she believed that the highest value of women, the only career and sense of achievement worth paying for, was actually the gender of women.
However, the 1960s witnessed a challenge to the image of this "heroine housewife". In 1963, "The Mystery of Women" was published. In the same year, physicist Maria Goepper-Mayer won the Nobel Prize, the first after Mrs. Bureau. Distinguished women. In the same year, the pop song "You don't own me" topped the charts...Throughout the 1960s, along with the pro-democracy and feminist movements, American women began to re-examine their own values and meaning of existence.
Peggy Olson, who was unwilling to be one percent, just caught up with the torrent of this wave of times, and was chosen as the trendy girl.
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