New York City, 1960s. In the Golden Age of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is what it seems.
Rachel Menken enters the first season of Mad Men as an ambitious and modern Jewish American businesswoman, looking to transform Menken’s department store into something contemporary, stylish, and innovative. She employs Sterling Cooper, an esteemed ad agency dominated by white men in designer suits, to bring her vision for Menken’s department store into fruition.
Don tries to talk to Rachel a second time after their disappointing meeting. He admits he acted unprofessionally and Rachel immediately accepts his apology. Don changes the subject by grilling Rachel on why she isn't married, and Rachel explains that she finds business to be a thrill, and she doesn't "wear an apron" because she has never been in love. Don explains his philosophy on love and life.
She completely charms Don Draper through her witty banter and brilliance, leading the two of them to engage in a heated affair. This affair eventually, along with a series of other plot-related details, drives Don to ask Rachel to run away with him.
Don in many ways exhibits the thinking of an existentialist — the lack of innate meaning in life is what gives you the freedom to choose. But he also, at times, lets that facade crack, and his view turns nihilistic, as it does in his nylons monologue.
Don is great at constructing meaning, even when — especially when — there isn’t anything there. He invents a story, convinces others it’s the case, then comes to believe it himself. He tells people that something is what they’ve always wanted, even if it never really was.
- You got in trouble, didn't you?
- I shouldn't have lost my temper, and I certainly shouldn't have treated you like anything less than a client.
- Apology accepted.
- So you understand.
- Now I do. It was, uh, refreshing, really. I mean, actually hearing all the things I always assumed people were thinking.
- Well, I'm not really as bad as all that. I was under a lot of pressure. Another account.
- Doesn't really matter.
- No, it doesn't.
- So, without making things worse, can I ask you a personal question?
- Don't you want to get a second drink in me first?
- Why aren't you married?
- Are you asking what's wrong with me?
- It's just that you're a beautiful, educated woman. Don't you think that getting married
and having a family would make you happier than all the headaches that go along with... fighting people like me?
- If I weren't a woman, I would be allowed to ask you the same question. And if I weren't a woman, I wouldn't have to choose between putting on an apron and the thrill of making my father's store what I always thought it should be.
- So that's it. You won't get married because you find business to be a thrill.
- That and... I've never been in love.
- She won't get married because she's never been in love. I think I wrote that once to sell nylons.
- For a lot of people, love isn't just a slogan.
- Oh, you mean love. You mean the big lightning bolt to the heart where you can't eat and you can't work and you just run off and get married and make babies. The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call lovewas invented by guys like me to sell nylons.
- Is that right?
- I'm pretty sure about it. You're born alone, and you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on the top of you to make you forget those facts, but I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow... because there isn't one.
- I don't think I realized it until this moment, but it must be hard being a man, too.
- Excuse me?
- Mr. Draper...
- Don.
- Mr. Draper, I don't know what it is you really believe in, but I do know what it feels like to be out of place, to be disconnected, to see the whole world laid out in front of you the way other people live it. There is something about you that tells me you know it, too.
- I don't know if that's true. You want another drink?
- No. But you can tell your boss that you charmed me.
- So I guess we'll be seeing each other again.
- I'll be back in the office Monday morning, for a real meeting.
- I'd like that.
Mad Men: season 1, episode 1: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes S01E01
Director: Alan Taylor
Writter: Matthew Weiner
Cast: Jon Hamm, Maggie Siff
Maggie Siff (June 21, 1974) is an American actress. Her most notable television role is department store heiress Rachel Menken Katz on the AMC drama Mad Men.
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