The Fountainhead | Peter Keating
Peter Keating
Keating arrives in New York at the same time as Roark, but the two architects take very different paths. Keating achieves success rather quickly by learning, under Guy Francon's tutelage, how to manipulate others. Harboring no illusions about his lack of creativity, Keating easily accepts the help of others; in some cases he actually puts his name on others' work.
His lack of a clear vision of self is evident in his difficulty in making decisions, as he shows when he cannot decide at the beginning of the novel...
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