The Fountainhead | Ellsworth Toohey

Ellsworth Toohey
Ellsworth Toohey, the architectural critic for The Banner, promotes collectivism and so condemns Roark's display of individualism, insisting that the architect's sensibility is inherently selfish. As a result, he attacks Roark in his column called "One Small Voice." Toohey claims humanitarian motives for his criticism of men like Roark. Yet his jealousy of their talent is the real cause of his efforts to destroy them. The narrator notes that when he was seven, Toohey had attacked a child who gained the attention he craved.

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