The Fountainhead | Howard Roark

Howard Roark
Howard Roark is a brilliant architect whose innovative designs reflect his stanch individualism. At the beginning of the novel, he is expelled from school for his inability to conform to tradition. In her preliminary notes for the novel, Rand comments that Roark contains an "utter selfishness"— an "iron conviction" to "be himself at any cost—the only thing he really wants of life." He insists, "All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil." What he wants is to be able...

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