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And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances
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Forget “The Suitcase”, that was truly the best episode.
Lane died not for his sins, but for the sins of the entire company, which he had been burdened with alone, and had received absolutely no support. Everyone in the office ridiculed him, and never took him seriously. He went into debt to save the company, while Don and co. chased their dreams. Matthew Weiner has again shown his brilliance as a writer by creating a parallelism between the character of Lane and the character of Willy Loman, the protagonist from Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”. Both men were flawed, perhaps unfaithful, and lied to themselves and those close to them about their success, creating an illusion of obtaining the American Dream, when in fact both men knew well that they were far from it. Lane tried to get Christmas bonuses in order to pay his debt, and eventually turned to fraud. He lied to his partners and his wife about success in order to momentarily deflect the harsh reality that he was forced to sink into every day while the whole world indulged themselves around him. Pryce, like Loman, ultimately die so that others can survive. When Willy Loman kills himself, his oldest son is able to collect life insurance and follow his own dream of heading out west, to the land of promise. When Pryce dies, he dies with the weight of Don, Roger, and Pete’s blunders(including a certain trip to a brothel) on his shoulders. Anyone who has followed the series since he came on board knows that while his American counterparts swap jokes and smoke, he’s the one sweating over the books, balancing the budget. He really was the only one who had any sort of financial responsibility at the company, so his death is rather ironic too. With Pryce’s death, Weiner is not only trying to emotionally shock the audience, he’s sending a clear message: Lane Pryce, the one man at SCDP who had any sense of financial responsibility, has killed himself after trying to steal company funds because he had used most of his money to keep the firm afloat. Peggy Olson, who now possesses the creative prowess that Don had( her final pitch mirrored the very first one we saw Don give in the pilot) has resigned and taken a better job. Something is clearly rotten in the state of Madison Avenue.
Another Loman comparison- both men fail to kill themselves by Carbon Monoxide poisoning, which would be a painless way out, and instead are forced to a painful suicide, reminding the audience of the painful burden both men were forced to carry.
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