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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bringing personality type into the mix, she is supposed to be an ISTJ. She's trying to make logical choices.  she had love affairs along the way but i think she knew better than to try to make that into something serious. It was suppose to make sense that she held out and married a doctor. She didn't bank on him being abusive and nuts. Then from that position she did what she could to make something for herself. [/quote]

I’m surprised Joan didn’t figure out that the doctor was a loser…she is good at reading people generally. But then again she does make questionable romantic decisions: Roger and having his baby! [/quote]

Trudy also seems savvy and clever but is married to the turd that is Pete.  It does seem to imply the 60s ideal of domesticity was a false bill of goods.  Most of the married women end up miserable [/quote]

Trudy IS savvy and clever - but she's not from old money/blue blood like Pete was. Her family's wealth buys her way into that upper social echelon. We don't actually see a lot of this socially in Mad Men, but it's there with Pete's connections, the fact that no one at Sterling Cooper likes him but they won't get rid of him, etc.

And Trudy didn't want something else. She wanted exactly what she got.[/quote]

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