Mad Men Episode 4

The episode opens with  Bruce Campbell in the office with the guys when his wife comes. He hesitantly listens to what she has to say while the guys tease him. His wife is trying to get him to go apartment shopping in which she is asking for him to spend the money that he doesn't have in order to make her happy.
On the home front, Don's wife is walking the dog when she spots the new neighbors husband trying to force his way in to see the kids as she walks on.
Bruce makes a stop by his parents to ask for a loan in order to pay for the apartment. His father stone walls him and can't seem to make any head way or get along with his father due to Bruce's profession. This forces Bruce to go to his father in law who readily says yes to helping with the apartment. In the office, Bruce is trying to exert his control over the office and over Don. Which causes Don to keep cutting him down, to keep making sure that he is on top despite Bruce having legitimate ideas and ads.
The rest of the episode focuses and personifies the growing unease of Bruce Campbell on both the home and work fronts. This comes to a head in this episode when Bruce finally over steps his boundaries as Don is trying to sell a client on an idea and Bruce stops it dead in its tracks by having already pitched an idea to the client and it is accepted, at which point Don effectively fires Bruce. When Don goes to tell Sterling about it, Sterling agrees to the firing until they are called into the senior partners office, at which point Don gets a piece on career politics in which Don learns he cannot fire Bruce Campbell due to his father. The episode ends with Bruce, his wife and his wife's parents looking out the window of the new apartment.
A continuing theme is simply that of the facade, specifically for Bruce. Not only does he put up with his peers at work, where he has to act like he is in charge with his wife. He also tries the same thing with his dad when asking him for money, putting on the tough face so that he can explain what it is to be an ad man. You also see him put on the i'm a guy and i'm in control when he talks to his wife about his meeting with his parents in which he lies and said that it went well. However it is growing more and more apparent that he is not in control of things because his wife pressures him and he submits, Don wins the arguments and such at work, and his father is still pushing him around.
The bible talks about not worrying about tomorrow, letting the cares of the day not bother you as you go to sleep, and not letting the sun set on your problems with other people. Bruce, keeps putting up this facade that i'm alright, I can do it, that i'm a man and nothing should get in the way of that. However because of this, he will have the most trouble of all. Not just because he doesn't talk about things, but because he is not taking care of the heart of the issues. Which would be his own heart, letting the pressures that his Father puts on him or that his wife puts on him, or even that work puts on him be lifted off and letting himself find a way to let that anger go. Coming up soon I have a feeling that we will see an episode of Bruce explode on himself and or others if he does not vent in a healthy way as the bible talks about. Another thing that the bible talks about in relation to this episode is the attitude, Bruce seems to be having a growing attitude of pride of which the bible speaks of heading that off, we see the examples of these great kings in the Old Testament that fell because pride or some form there of got in their way and brought a downfall to their worldly treasures. I think the challenge for me is that i need to stop continually cutting myself down with the past or even the things that I do now, which leads to the building up of myself in pride and let things go, give them to God and let him take care of my troubles.