Friedan Essay Connections by Bridget Norman https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan Make TWO connections between the arguments Friedan makes in her essay "The Feminine Mystique" and the quotes/advertisements posted on this Padlet from characters in "Mad Men," "Catcher in the Rye," and 1950s magazines. For each connection you make, write an explanation of how Friedan's argument connects to the quote/advertisement and support your connection with a quote from Friedan's text. en-us 2018-01-26 17:10:12 UTC 2025-09-23 04:21:11 UTC hello@padlet.com bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225148085 Holden in Catcher in the Rye: " She was a funny girl, old Jane. I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though . . . She was always reading, and she read very good books. She read a lot of poetry and all. She was the only one, outside my family, that I ever showed Allie's baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it . . . I didn't kid her much, though. You never wanted to kid Jane too much. I think I really like it best when you can kid the pants off a girl when the opportunity arises, but it's a funny thing. The girls I like best are the ones I never feel much like kidding."]]> 2018-01-26 17:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225148085 bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225153825 2018-01-26 17:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225153825 bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225153910 2018-01-26 17:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225153910 "Bendix automatically gives you . . . the time of your life!" bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225154303 2018-01-26 17:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225154303 "My Washdays are Holidays Now" bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225154609 2018-01-26 17:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225154609 "It's not a luxury . . . it's a modern necessity. Saves you more work, saves you more time than any other appliance you own!" bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225155555 2018-01-26 17:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225155555 "You'll be happier with a Hoover." bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225156023 2018-01-26 17:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225156023 "Secretaries, look! The new Underwood 150 is the typewriter designed to keep your hands lovely to look at." bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225157985 2018-01-26 17:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225157985 bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225159064 Holden in Catcher in the Rye: "Then she got up and went over to where she'd put her dress down, on the bed. "Ya got a hanger? I don't want to get my dress all wrinkly. It's brand-clean." "Sure," I said right away. I was only too glad to get up and do something. I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up for her. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell--I don't know why exactly.]]> 2018-01-26 17:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225159064 bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225159919 Holden: "there were about a million girls sitting and standing around waiting for their dates to show up. Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them. It was really nice sightseeing, if you know what I mean. In a way, it was sort of depressing, too, because you kept wondering what the hell would happen to all of them. When they got out of school and college, I mean. You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. Guys that are very boring--"]]> 2018-01-26 17:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225159919 bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225160709 Holden: "Here's my idea. How would you like to get the hell out of here?  . . . tomorrow morning we could drive up to Massachusetts . . . We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out. Then, when the dough runs out, I could get a job somewhere and we could live somewhere with a brook and all and, later on, we could get married or something. I could chop all our own wood in the wintertime and all. Honest to God, we could have a terrific time! Wuddaya say? C'mon! Wuddaya say? Will you do it with me? Please!" 

"You can't just do something like that," old Sally said. She sounded sore as hell.

"Why not? Why the hell not?"  . . . 

"It isn't that. It isn't that at all," old Sally said. I was beginning to hate her, in a way. "We'll have oodles of time to do those things--all those things. I mean after you go to college and all, and if we should get married and all. There'll be oodles of marvelous places to go to. You're just--" 

"No, there wouldn't be. There wouldn't be oodles of places to go to at all. It'd be entirely different," I said. I was getting depressed as hell again. . . . "We'd have to go downstairs in elevators with suitcases and stuff. We'd have to phone up everybody and tell 'em good-by and send 'em postcards from hotels and all. And I'd be working in some office, making a lot of dough, and riding to work in cabs and Madison Avenue buses, and reading newspapers, and playing bridge all the time, and going to the movies and seeing a lot of stupid shorts and coming attractions and newsreels . . . It wouldn't be the same at all. You don't see what I mean at all." ]]> 2018-01-26 17:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225160709 bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225245788 Joan to Peggy: "In a couple of years, with the right moves, you'll be in the city with the rest of us. Of course, if you really make the right moves, you'll be out in the country and you won't be going to work at all . . . He may act like he wants a secretary, but most of the time they're looking for something between a mother and a waitress. The rest of the time, well -- Go home, take a paper bag, cut eyeholes out of it. Put it over your head, get undressed and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and weaknesses are. And be honest. . . . Now try not to be overwhelmed by all this technology. It looks complicated, but the men who designed it made it simple  enough for a woman to use."]]> 2018-01-26 22:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225245788 Rachel to Don Draper: "You were expecting to me a man? My father was, too."Don Draper to Rachel: "I'm not going to let a woman talk to me like this. This meeting is over. Good luck, Miss Magnin."Don Draper to Rachel: "Why aren't you married . . . It's just that you're a beautiful, educated woman. Don't you think getting married and having a family would make you a lot happier than all the headaches that go with fighting people like me?"Rachel to Don Draper: "If I weren't a woman, I would be allowed to ask you the same question. And if I weren't a woman I wouldn't have to choose between putting on an apron and the thrill of making my father's store what I always thought it should be." bnorman1990 https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225245839 2018-01-26 22:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bnorman1990/friedan/wish/225245839