Don Draper: Carousel Father

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Don Draper is a proud father of two and is married to his wife Betty. Don is also a sales executive who represents the company Kodak with their new product the Carousel. In the 1960’s life was a lot different than it was today, with smoking cigarettes being interpreted as a good thing and where technology was at its birth. Don doesn’t seem like the best of fathers based on his son’s facial reactions in the slide, because he definitely has a favourite child, all though it seems like he doesn’t spend enough time with both his children. Don likes both of his kids, Sally and Bobby, but he favours his daughter over his son, because in the slideshow, she was dominating the frame in most pictures. In slide six Sally was sitting on top of her dad’s

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