"It doesn't really bother me except for it's forever.
When I think about forever I get upset."
Sally Draper begins as a blank slate on Mad Men.
Don's and Betty's first-born,
this innocent child is a being of pure potential,
waiting to be shaped by all that we witness in the show.
"How's the city?"
"Dirty."
If the proof is in the pudding, then what of Don, Betty and their era
is reflected in the woman Sally eventually becomes?
"Henry says she's a lot like you."
"How would he know?"
"He says she reminds him of you."
"I think she's a lot like you."
As the main baby boomer we get to know,
Sally is the stand-in for a lot of people watching this show --
when Mad Men aired, the median age of its viewers was over 50.
Or, if you're a millennial or Gen X watching,
Sally is your parents.
So whether you look at her and recall your own childhood,
or use her to try to understand your parents' youth,
Sally is the bridge between the Mad Men era, and us.
Ultimately she represents a generation who endured major upheaval
in their formative years -- both at home and in the wider world --
"She's from a broken home."
but who broke with the past to forge their own path.
For all the trauma she experiences,
"I didn't do anything."
"Don't you dare lie to me.
I'll cut your fingers off."
Sally somehow turns out okay,
"Good evening everyone."
"Oh my god."
and that reveals Mad Men's underlying note of optimism about the future.
If this girl can survive Don and Betty and come out unscathed,
then maybe everything will be fine for us, too.
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"You know I don't like you using the stove."
"Oh, daddy, I do it all the time."
Sally's childhood couldn't be more different
from your average upper middle-class youth today.
The first scene when we properly meet her tells us everything.
Little Sally's got a dry cleaning bag over her head,
but that's not her mom's concern.
"If the clothes from that dry cleaning bag are on the floor of my closet,
you're going to be a very sorry young lady."
This scene situates us as far as it gets from our age of helicopter parenting.
Show creator Matthew Weiner has said that Sally reading Rosemary's Baby
in season six, quote,
"shows she had no parents, because no one wants their 13-year-old
to read that book."
If Stranger Things romanticizes the 80s as an era when kids got to roam around
free of parental supervision,
"If anyone asks where I am, I've left the country."
Mad Men exposes the 60s as an era when kids were profoundly damaged
by their parents' emotional negligence.
"She's a child, she'll get over it."
The parents we meet don't arrange their lives
to accommodate their children -- quite the opposite.
"You can't even watch them for a second.
It's like leaving them with nobody!"
"Because you're so good with them?"
Betty's mothering strikes us today as almost laughably cruel.
She lashes out, physically and emotionally.
"You're mean!"
"You betcha.
Get in there."
She doesn't give a thought to Sally's feelings.
Just look at how she abruptly fires Carla, Sally's long-time nanny,
without letting her daughter even get a goodbye.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to say goodbye to the children."
"Do you think that's a good idea right now?"
Then there are the questionable values Betty imparts.
"You don't kiss boys.
Boys kiss you."
She teaches her daughter that appearance is everything.
"Sally looks fat."
Meanwhile Sally's father is emotionally distant.
"My father's never given me anything."
and barely lets his kids know him --
to the degree that Sally has no way of knowing
that a stranger robbing Don's apartment is lying that she raised Don.
"Then I realized -- I don't know anything about you."
Don also gives his daughter a terrible model
for how men should treat women.
Sally picks up on her dad's womanizing from an early age.
"You're going to see a girl, aren't you?"
"Yes I am."
"I don't like that."
"Are you and my daddy doing it?"
"Are you going to marry Faye?"
Then she sees her father remarry his young secretary,
whom she knows as her babysitter from the California trip.
"Let me guess, dad's remarried, mom's fat and sad.
No, they're both remarried, but my dad's wife is my age."
And after Sally has adjusted to having this young stepmother,
she walks in on Don having sex with a neighbor.
"You make me sick!"
So she not only has to see her father at his worst,
she also has to carry around his secrets.
"Do you know how hard it was for me to go to your apartment?
I could have run into that woman.
I could be in the elevator, she could get in
and I'd have to stand there smiling wanting to vomit
while I smell her hairspray."
It's hard to imagine all this prepares Sally for stable romantic relationships in adulthood.
And of course, both of Sally's parents set the example
that the acceptable way to handle one's problems
is through constant smoking --
"I'd rather have you do it in front of me
than behind my back."
and drinking.
"'Muddled.'
That means smash it."
"He'll be nicer on the second one.
You did a wonderful job on mine."
"Thank you."
"Go take Mommy and Francine's orders."
So Sally is essentially cheated out of a childhood.
In fact, she is the grown-up in the Draper family.
She's often more mature than Betty,
"She doesn't care what the truth is, as long as I do what she says."
and we see her taking care of Bobby and little Gene.
"What happened here?
Smells like a fire."
"I was making dinner."
"Get the frying pan.
I'll show you how to do it."
As she gets older, she ends up parenting the adults in her life.
"Your mother is sick.
She has lung cancer and it's very advanced."
This scene of Henry delivering the news about Betty
ends with Sally comforting him.
[Cries]
Later when she talks to Don about Betty's diagnosis,
she again has to take control and tell him what's best for her brothers.
"Daddy, it's going to be so hard for them already.
They should at least be in the same bed and at the same school."
"Sally, grown-ups make these decisions."
Sally disproves our lazy assumptions about kids --
like that they don't experience as complex emotions as adults
"Now he's not here.
He's gone forever and nobody even knows that."
"Stop it."
or that they don't notice the adult dynamics around them.
"Why won't you let him come home?"
"Is that what you think?"
"His suitcase is here, and he's not."
People in the Drapers' circle -- and we viewers --
may be seduced by the polished facade that Don and Betty present to the world,
but Sally isn't buying it.
"I'd stay here till 1975 if I could get Betty in the ground."
She sees her parents for exactly what they are,
and she calls them on it.
"Anyone pays attention to either of you --
and they always do --
and you just ooze everywhere."
She also rejects her parents' desire to keep up appearances --
refreshingly honest Sally exposes the discontent in their family.
"Shut up."
"What's gotten into you?"
But this young girl also reminds us
that Don's and Betty's bad behavior takes a real toll.
She can't help imitating her parents' patterns herself.
"You are like your mother and me.
You're gonna find that out."
She's internalized their dysfunctional pattern of repressing feelings,
and then expressing anger and pain in misbehavior and outbursts
"I'm not going, I'm not leaving, I hate it there!"
We really see this in season four,
when Sally is struggling in the aftermath of Don and Betty's divorce --
she cuts off her hair, masturbates at a sleepover,
and runs off to Manhattan alone to see Don.
In season six after she catches Don sleeping with Sylvia,
it seems like this cycle may be starting again.
"Sally's been suspended."
"What did she do?"
"She bought beer using the name 'Beth Francis,'
with a false ID she made."
All this acting out reflects that she hasn't been taught to cope
in a healthy way.
"You're being hysterical.
Calm down."
Her erratic behavior is essentially a child's version of Don's philandering
and drowning his sorrows.
Still, it's reassuring that -- no matter how fast she's forced to grow
up --
Sally still manages to hold onto a little bit of her childish side.
"Do you think your friends are going to be jealous
when they find out that you're going to see The Beatles on Sunday at Shea Stadium?"
"What?"
"You heard me."
[Screams in excitement]
"Hello? Sally?"
Just think of the episode "Waterloo" -- Sally tries to adopt her crush's cynicism
about the moon landing.
"It's such a waste of money."
"You don't really think that, do you?"
"We'll be going there all the time while people go hungry down here."
But later she ends up kissing his nerdy, space-obsessed younger brother instead,
showing that she's not willing to be totally jaded just yet.
Sally represents the Baby Boomer generation in the show --
that group of people born in the post-WWII baby boom,
between 1946 and 1964.
Don says Sally is ten years old when it's 1965,
"She's 10 years old."
so we gather Sally was born around 1955.
Through Sally we see how children of the 60s witnessed major upheaval in their early lives.
"Betty, they're going to burn down the city!
Everything's fine."
At home, the people who are supposed to protect Sally let her down.
"You say things and you don't mean them, and you can't just do that."
And in the world at large, social turmoil doesn't allow her to be sheltered from much.
"And in this day and age, it's overwhelming to raise a young girl,
let alone be one."
Boomers were the first generation to be raised alongside TVs --
some might even say raised by TVs.
"You two watch TV or something."
"Go watch TV."
"Can I go watch Shirley Temple's Storybook?"
"Yes."
"She doesn't believe me that I'm allowed to watch as much TV as I want
because it's the summer."
"Your mother lets you do that?"
Sally's not just watching a lot of kids' shows --
she's exposed to serious news coverage.
"Why are the kids watching this?"
"What am I supposed to do, Don?
Am I supposed to keep it from them?"
Think of the episode where Sally's beloved Grandpa Gene dies
--
she has an emotional outburst.
"He's dead and he's never coming back!
And nobody cares -- that he's really, really, really gone!"
"Sally, go watch TV!"
But when Sally obeys her mom's order, she sees the self-immolation of a Buddhist
monk.
This scene sums up how Sally's generation was exposed to these realities very young
--
there was no safe space, no way of tuning out
the darkness in the world.
As a result, Sally has no illusions about how things really are.
"It's gonna be alright."
"No, it's not."
Since so many viewers were Sally's age during this time period,
or are children of her generation,
a big part of her function in the show is helping us connect to Don and Betty's
era.
And while we might share her disgust for some of Don's and Betty's shortcomings,
ultimately -- through her --
we come to feel understanding and forgiveness for her parents, too.
"Happy Valentine's Day.
I love you."
In the season six finale, Don brings his kids to his own childhood home,
and we're reminded that Don's upbringing was even worse than Sally's.
"This is where I grew up."
"I wanted him to say 'This is where I grew up'
and he wanted to say 'This is where *I* grew up.'
And he was right."
So Don actually made progress in giving his daughter a better life than
he had.
And that gives us hope that, in her own way,
Sally can give her kids a better childhood than she had.
Even though Sally strikes us as a pretty well-adjusted young woman
by the end of the show, all things considered,
it's inevitable that some of her trauma will seep into her kids' childhoods,
most likely, she'll go the opposite route to Don and Betty
and be overattentive to her kids.
After all, Baby Boomers are the generation first associated with helicopter parenting
--
which makes sense if you grew up with folks like the Drapers.
Seeing this scene with Don's childhood home,
viewers of any age might be inspired to forgive their own parents
for not being able to totally overcome the impact of their pasts.
This cycle repeats, parents put their kids through the ringer
and give them plenty to talk about in therapy --
but somehow most kids tend to turn out alright anyway.
"She said you were curious, and bright,
and received glowing reports from all concerned."
Sally's not broken by her difficult coming of age.
Instead of becoming bitter like her stepmother Megan --
"I wasn't going to give you the satisfaction of knowing that you ruined my life."
Sally emerges as an independent, resilient young woman.
She's never had anyone protecting her, so she's become strong from a young age.
And there's hope for Sally's future.
"I'm so many people."
For so much of Mad Men it feels like Sally's well-being and future are really
precarious.
This is because in Betty's eyes Sally is a problem child,
"What's wrong with her?"
and we can understand how you'd worry if your kid was acting out as Sally does.
"The good is not beating the bad."
But in the end, Betty -- and the show -- validate Sally for being who she is.
"Sally, I always worried about you because you march to the beat of your own
drum.
But now I know that's good.
I know your life will be an adventure."
Sally not being a cookie cutter kid turned out to be a gift.
We talked in our Betty video about how Betty idolizes her late mother
and holds onto her outdated way of thinking.
Sally is the opposite -- she dismisses her mother's value system.
"Yeah, I know, because where would mom be without her perfect nose?
She wouldn't find a man like you.
She'd be nothing."
In fact she's determined to be different from both of her parents.
"I wanna get on a bus and get away from you and mom
and hopefully be a different person than you two."
This fierce individuality makes us believe in Sally's potential --
she's not going to blindly repeat her parents' mistakes.
In that way she represents her generation's greater rejection of their parents' society
--
the way that the hippies and flower children of the 60s
broke with the past and advocated for social change.
And we do start to see signs of a developing social consciousness in Sally.
"I hate cops."
Think of her reaction after her childhood friend Glenn
announces he's joining the army.
"Have fun at Playland.
Just remember those kids are the same age as the ones
you're going to be murdering in Vietnam."
At the end of the show Sally is about to become a motherless teenage girl --
she's going to have to raise herself from now on,
which is basically what she's already been doing.
More than for any other character,
it really feels like Sally's story is just beginning --
we don't know who she's going to become.
"You're a very beautiful girl.
It's up to you to be more than that."
But since her character was forged in the furnace of the 60s,
"I'm going to break your arm next."
"Betty!"
"Don't worry about me finding a man.
I already have you to keep me in line."
we feel confident that Sally can face whatever comes her way.
"You know what makes me happy?
A beautiful young lady who would someday be wearing makeup,
but not today."
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