When Gail and Dominique marry, he is impacted by her way of thinking and he sees life in a different perspective. The Banner caters to the mass populace appeal which is why it is so successful. Especially when she dumps Keating and marries yet again her new husband being ruthless businessman Gail Wynand who owns a popular newspaper called The Banner. do y'all understand that wacky logic or is just me? This Dominique girl really does confuse the life out of me. Bet you didn't see that coming! Her rationale for doing this is that it is her way of punishing herself because society has rejected Howard Roark. So Dominique ends up marrying Peter Keating. Really, Dominique only has intentions of protecting Roark by destroying him. But then I figured out that since Dominique admires Roark's work so much and feels it is brilliant in reflecting the human spirit, she feels the world does not deserve him because it is a corrupt place. At first this made absolutely no sense to me. and Dominique, the weirdo that she is, insists she will try her hardest to destroy Roark. Roark and Dominique proceed to have a really creepy/weird relationship that made me feel uncomfortable and that I will never truly understand. After seeing Roark working at a granite quarry because he is financial trouble, she falls in love with him. Then Dominique Francon comes along, Guy Francon from Francon & Heyer's daughter. Toohey writes articles praising Keating's 'achievements'. Keating 'sells his soul' to Toohey in exchange for success. Toohey, a journalist with hopes of one day ruling the world through Collectivism. Keating falls prey to the cunning Ellsworth M. All of Keating's notable works are actually designed by Roark but he takes the credit for it. Even though Keating hates Roark (as result of his intense jealousy of him), he still comes to him for help and Roark always gives it to him. Roark goes on to struggle financially and fails numerous times during his architectural endeavors because he refuses to be a people-pleaser. Keating graduates Stanton and immediately takes a job offer at the acclaimed Francon & Heyer architectural firm. Enter Peter Keating, the polar opposite of Roark: a 'goody-two-shoes' type with a charm, good looks, and conformist nature. Roark is a stubborn individualist whose nonconformist values get him booted out of college. To make a LONG story short, the book starts off with the expulsion of protagonist Howard Roark from the Stanton architectural school. So enough about the size, time to get to the good stuff the story. The book is divided into four sub-books and each contains like 20 chapters. Fountainhead however was drawn-out, repetitive, dry, and terribly boring. The first was Anthem, a novella, that I read for school in freshman year which I enjoyed. Fountainhead was my second Ayn Rand work. I started around the beginning of July an have finished at the close of August. I can honestly say that I have never taken so long to read a book in my entire life. As if that wasn't time-consuming enough, my soon-to-be teacher heaped on 12 reflective response essays. As well as read it, I had to annotate every page and keep a list of vocabulary words to define. English Language and Composition class that I am taking in 11th grade. and I have really missed this! I attribute my absence to this 694-page monster, The Fountainhead. This novel is required reading for my A.P. I'm baaaaack! Yes it has literally been months since I have posted.
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