re: Started a Mad Men rewatch

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Don's always felt much more complex to me aside from the fact that both of them could have been stronger men and not made terrible choices consistently along the way. Tony on the other hand, was doomed from birth and the cesspool environment he was stuck in.

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Really it boils down to the fact that Don doesn't know who or what he is from an identity perspective. Is a big house, good looking wife, and kids his identity? When he loses it he thinks it is. Is he really just Dick Whitman, can he ever become more than his upbringing? And then to me the 'zing" at the end isn't just him coming up with the idea for the Coke commercial, its him figuring out that he is an 'mAd Man'. That is what he is good at, and even more than that its who and what he is.