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What do you want to hear?
I love this Darper line, and it seems to be becoming persistent. The first time I can remember him sayng this was when Roger asked him if he believed in "an energy", "a soul", in the hospital. Draper used it in last night's episode in the bed with Betty after their fight, and I think he used it before when he was supposed to tell her how awful Carleton had been, and how happy he seemed in his new domestic role with Francine. I just think the comment personifies Draper's reluctant participation in the ad world. He's willing to tell people what they want to hear, but he hates doing it.
I'm also reminded of Draper waiting the poetry act with the hippies in season 1, and he says something like, "People are so desperate to be told what to believe, they'll do anything." I think that was when he said that, but I'm not positive.
Draper is fundamentally a no holds-barred, Ayn Rand brutally honest man, but of course he has all of these contradictions, and the secretive life that can only be seen as a lie.
I see several possibilities. 1. He knows he isn't going to be able to please the person with his own answer (they aren't going to agree), so what does the person want to hear to make him/her shut up? 2. He makes a living by asking that question and does it by reflex. 3. He doesn't believe there is an answer to the question.
Good catch...I remember now DD's saying that on those occasions, but hadn't realized how often he'd used it. (And guess he won't be using it again, as Don believes in "moving forward," haha).
It's a discussion-ending, rhetorical "knock-out."
When used on Betty, it meant: "What do I have to say to make you shut up?"
On Roger, it meant: "Isn't this whole discussion a bit silly, sophomoric, innappropriate;...and besides, Roger, you're drunk."
Agree completely with your assessment of DD as a brutally honest man; and maybe that fact--among others -- is a reason he doesn't talk much!
The great dialogue of this show is one of the reasons I can watch certain scenes (and some whole episodes) more than once. And reading posts is where I pick up things I missed.
Another gem: Don's telling his first" post-Peggy secretary" (the one who came from the swtichboard), that her job was "....to manage" others' "expectations" of him.
What a great one-line summary of the
the secretary's "Real" job desciption! (I wonder if that was taught at Catherine Gibbs)?
Another office dialogue gambit was Joan's telling Peggy (on Peggy's first day) something like: "Your whole job is to guard Mr. Draper's private life and professional life." Peggy's response, an incredulous "Really??"...( and the look on her face)... were priceless.
...strongandsilent....
I submit that Don's new variation on "What do you want to hear...?" is now (reference Episode 11):
"...I don't know what to say.." I believe he used it twice (with Anna) in the Mountain King episode.
This second phrase indicates a personality with more humility than the NYC Don. Agree?
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