The Battle of Manipulating Information against the World
Don Draper and Tom Rath are the main protagonists from each of “fictional” worlds, Mad Men and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, respectively. Draper and Rath follow their own particular beliefs such as women, spilling information to the right people in the most appropriate way, and dealing with themselves when they are alone. Draper works at Sterling Cooper as the creative director where he has to persuade his clients that Sterling Cooper’s is the right choice for them as long as they stay with them. Along with that, Draper has served in the Korean War. Unlike Draper, Rath has an office job at Schanenhauser Foundation and has served in World War II. Both men had sex with women before …show more content…
Draper goes out with an amplitude of women throughout New York, but the women that he has sex with are the ones who aren’t housewives. In the first season the viewers see Draper hanging out first with Midge Daniels and later on with Rachel Menken. They are both single and were considered as independent women who didn’t rely on other men for their needs. To Draper, he believes that independent women instead of the usual domestic women during this time period were better off since these women have their own logical sense of the world with the education they earned. Sure, he definitely has the typical housewife, Betty, but going back to the episode “The Hobo Code,” Don lived in a time where he had dishonest parents as a child. Today, as an adult, Don believes that he shouldn’t give birth the same issue happen to his …show more content…
During the war, he always made the right assumption that everyone should say the right appropriate answers to their higher-ups and not try to be honest about themselves. In the book, it worked up to the war, but when he got the job at United Broadcasting Corporation, there was a slight transition in how Rath had to carefully state his ideas. The other cases were where he had to write an essay for Ralph Hopkins and talking with Hopkins one on one. In the mental issues paper that Rath typed up, his boss Odgen tells him that he’s repeating the same broad idea without any details. This happens numerous times until he perfects the paper, but Rath was sucked into a situation where he has no previous knowledge about mental issues. With the conversations with Hopkins, Rath is stuck between whether to tell the truth or go along with his boss’s values. Betsy, his wife, tries to embrace the fact that saying the honest thing to his boss is the right thing to do. In the end, he speaks about his honest views about the occupation and whether if there’s any future opportunities for a business that he would induce more involvement in the corporation, thanks to the advice that Betsy has made for him. Rath believes that honesty is always the right answer at any second, but the second he is trying to earn his boss’s respect, it boils down to what he is expected to say that would bring a
Don Draper and Tom Rath are the main protagonists from each of “fictional” worlds, Mad Men and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, respectively. Draper and Rath follow their own particular beliefs such as women, spilling information to the right people in the most appropriate way, and dealing with themselves when they are alone. Draper works at Sterling Cooper as the creative director where he has to persuade his clients that Sterling Cooper’s is the right choice for them as long as they stay with them. Along with that, Draper has served in the Korean War. Unlike Draper, Rath has an office job at Schanenhauser Foundation and has served in World War II. Both men had sex with women before …show more content…
Draper goes out with an amplitude of women throughout New York, but the women that he has sex with are the ones who aren’t housewives. In the first season the viewers see Draper hanging out first with Midge Daniels and later on with Rachel Menken. They are both single and were considered as independent women who didn’t rely on other men for their needs. To Draper, he believes that independent women instead of the usual domestic women during this time period were better off since these women have their own logical sense of the world with the education they earned. Sure, he definitely has the typical housewife, Betty, but going back to the episode “The Hobo Code,” Don lived in a time where he had dishonest parents as a child. Today, as an adult, Don believes that he shouldn’t give birth the same issue happen to his …show more content…
During the war, he always made the right assumption that everyone should say the right appropriate answers to their higher-ups and not try to be honest about themselves. In the book, it worked up to the war, but when he got the job at United Broadcasting Corporation, there was a slight transition in how Rath had to carefully state his ideas. The other cases were where he had to write an essay for Ralph Hopkins and talking with Hopkins one on one. In the mental issues paper that Rath typed up, his boss Odgen tells him that he’s repeating the same broad idea without any details. This happens numerous times until he perfects the paper, but Rath was sucked into a situation where he has no previous knowledge about mental issues. With the conversations with Hopkins, Rath is stuck between whether to tell the truth or go along with his boss’s values. Betsy, his wife, tries to embrace the fact that saying the honest thing to his boss is the right thing to do. In the end, he speaks about his honest views about the occupation and whether if there’s any future opportunities for a business that he would induce more involvement in the corporation, thanks to the advice that Betsy has made for him. Rath believes that honesty is always the right answer at any second, but the second he is trying to earn his boss’s respect, it boils down to what he is expected to say that would bring a