Mad Men, Season 5

But what about this notion of dignity, as distinct from morality? It?s a strand in the show?s DNA that I?ve never given much consideration, but one that might be useful for us to tease out in these final posts. Dignity is related to pride, on some level, and a character like Pete seems to represent one pole on the continuum: He?s got no shame, and thus no dignity. Don, meanwhile, seems to occupy the opposite pole: He often does the wrong thing, but he does it with panache, his pride almost always intact. The rest of the characters fall somewhere on the spectrum between them, subjected to varying stress positions of indignity and shame?from Peggy, who tired of the soft bigotry and walked out the door, to Joan, who embraced the low estimation of her colleagues in exchange for a stake in the firm.? Suicide is always a riddle, but Lane?s sense of his own dignity?his personal threshold for those remedial steps he was simply too proud to undertake?goes a long way in explaining his final bow.

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