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"The Swede" and The Don

Is it just me, or does Don Draper remind anyone of Seymour Levov from American Pastoral? To me there is something very Philip Rothian about the series, especially its views on motherhood and business.

Posted by sick4toys
September 17, 2008 10:13pm

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By sick4toys on September 17, 2008 11:01 PM

In Philip Roth's 1971 novel Our Gang, "Erect Severehead" delivered this commentary: "Yet madmen there have been and madmen there will be, and still this nation has endured. And, I daresay, endure it will... leaving us in the end, if not stronger, wiser; and if not wiser, stronger; and if, alas, not either, both."

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By Country Husband on September 18, 2008 11:18 PM

I agree that there are some Roth influences in the series. But Don reminds me of Francis Weed in Cheever's The Country Husband. Both characters are disconnected yet trapped in the lives they have created.