The Fountainhead | Characters
The major character of The Fountainhead is Howard Roark, an architect who has a vision of buildings that have never been built but should have been, and who is determined that he is the man to build them. Roark has often been compared to modern architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who also built unorthodox structures, although Rand denied any similarities between the two in anything other than their architectural beliefs; like all of Rand's other characters, Roark is an idealized creation, not a depiction of any real person. A review of the book noted that the "characters are...
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