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The Fountainhead

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The Fountainhead	comment	The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. It was made into a 1949 film starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, with Rand herself writing the screenplay. The film was directed by King Vidor.Howard Roark, The Hero of the story, is an architect whose style tends toward being "modernistic." Problem is, everyone else where he lives likes to recycle old styles, so Howard is more of an acquired taste in the art world, where only a few folks (who become his True Companions, more or less) appreciate him.The Architectural establishment all damn Roark for being insufficiently humble enough to "realize" that no one will ever approach the glories of the past. No one cares that Roark's buildings are actually pleasant to live in; no, people don't want to live in houses, they want big flashy facades with lavish ballrooms so they can entertain their friends and impress them.And so begins architecture as a metaphor for the content of people's selves. Those that build houses for the purposes of showing off and impressing friends do not have any content of their own in their soul; they live second-hand, dependent on other people for their psychological sense of self.For more information on Objectivist ideas, please see Objectivism.Zack Snyder is working on a new film adaptation.
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The Fountainhead / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The Fountainhead / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Ellsworth Toohey acts like a kindly, benevolent altruist, but behind the scenes, he's this. In a massive monologue, he positively revels in his evil scheme to gain control of society by propping up mediocrity in the name of "equality," which will prevent the genuinely great from ever achieving anything. He also snaps that Peter Keating and his ilk—the very people who Toohey claims to love—make him sick, admitting that he only pretends to like them to make himself look good.
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The Fountainhead / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Fountainhead / int_1439161f	comment	Mrs. Keating has this reaction after Dominique divorces Peter, who ends up in Heroic BSoD. After all, she was the one who encouraged Peter to become an architect and toss aside Katie, the girl he loved, in favor of Dominique. Mrs. Keating tries to cook his favorite foods and ask about his happiness, even suggesting he could marry Katie if he wished and would have her blessing. Peter is so mad by this that he refuses to even dignify that with an answer, and nothing she does can fix the damage she caused him.
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The Fountainhead / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
The Fountainhead / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: How "Stretch" Wynand gains control of his gang.
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The Fountainhead / int_1e6dfea1	type	Ãœbermensch
The Fountainhead / int_1e6dfea1	comment	Ãœbermensch: Roark
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The Fountainhead / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
The Fountainhead / int_1ee9819e	comment	Scary Shiny Glasses: Ellsworth Toohey does this once near the end of the book. It's described in a very sinister way.
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The Fountainhead / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Fountainhead / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Peter throws over the fiancee he truly loves when his boss's daughter proposes marriage to him, deciding he'd rather boost his career. It works. For a time, anyway.
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The Fountainhead / int_22cfc112	type	A Shared Suffering
The Fountainhead / int_22cfc112	comment	A Shared Suffering: Howard's few close friends are other artists who aren't appreciated by society.
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The Fountainhead / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Fountainhead / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: This is a character trait for Howard Roark, who happily tells everyone exactly what he thinks of them and their ideas. There's a tragic version of this trope toward the end of the novel, when a thoroughly broken and disgraced Peter Keating takes up painting (always his real passion) and shows his work to Roark. Howard tells Peter that the paintings aren't very good and it's probably too late in Peter's life to really learn how to paint at a high level, but it clearly pains Roark to say it and he seems to wish he didn't have to be so honest. Peter, for his part, suspected his paintings weren't very good and doesn't resent Roark for his honesty.
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The Fountainhead / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Fountainhead / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Austen Heller in the whole story. He gives Roark his first architecture job, tries to financially support him, and hire a defense team at the Stoddard trial. Austen gives a regular What the Hell, Hero? speech to Roark for being so damn stubborn.
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The Fountainhead / int_264a12ef	type	Mentor's New Hope
The Fountainhead / int_264a12ef	comment	Mentor's New Hope: Howard Roark seems to be this to Henry Cameron. Cameron's secretary even took a double-take when Roark asked for a job interview, and it took seeing Roark's architectural designs to convince Cameron that it wasn't a trick.
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The Fountainhead / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The Fountainhead / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Dominique, although not so much an "ice queen" as she's more like extremely pessimistic, eventually softens up to Roark (even if his methods areâ€¦ controversial, to say the least).
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The Fountainhead / int_292d1ccd	type	Everyone Went to School Together
The Fountainhead / int_292d1ccd	comment	Everyone Went to School Together: Keating is two years ahead of Roark in architecture school when Roark gets expelled.
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The Fountainhead / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The Fountainhead / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Howard Roark and Dominique Francon try to break each other early in their relationship.
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The Fountainhead / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Fountainhead / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Alvah Scarret is a Yes-Man to Gail, being the Moral Pragmatist who sells the papers. Then he learns that Gail has a habit of finding men with integrity and breaking them because he wants to believe no one sticks to their convictions. Alvah's horrified when Gail's first victim, Dwight Carson, becomes a dipsomaniac (alcoholic), two other men become drug addicts and one becomes suicidal. He tries with no avail to advise Gail that his hobby is akin to murder. Gail of course, doesn't listen. It gets worse than Gail fires Dwight, after breaking the man thoroughly. Toohey is horrified for Gail's behalf when he hears the latter wants to marry Dominique. He knows that Dominique only gets with men to destroy them, either with kindness or cruelty. Later, he genuinely is disgusted that Howard Roark blew up a building meant to help the poor. Toohey says that jail time would be good for Howard to actually learn to live like a normal human being.
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The Fountainhead / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
The Fountainhead / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Howard Roark is allowed to argue that his blowing up of a building (because his design for it had been changed) was justified and for the jury to acquit him (they do). No judge would permit him to argue for this, which is called jury nullification (ignoring the law even when the defendant is plainly guilty of violating it).
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The Fountainhead / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
The Fountainhead / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Howard does his version of this after he finds out who Dominique's second husband is going to be.
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The Fountainhead / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
The Fountainhead / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Roark threatens to end relationships with those whom offer him money without doing work.
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The Fountainhead / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Fountainhead / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Toohey's recommending Roark for the Stoddard Temple is the start of his campaign to discredit Roark.
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The Fountainhead / int_3a6a7b0a	type	Starving Artist
The Fountainhead / int_3a6a7b0a	comment	Starving Artist: Henry Cameron is described as being an architectural genius, but because he only builds modernist buildings he is in poverty. Roark likewise struggles with business. Both these men are contrasted by Keating and Francon, who are extremely wealthy but who make money by manipulating others rather than by any real merit.
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The Fountainhead / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Fountainhead / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Invoked and then rejected. Wynand offers to let Roark build him the house of his dreams, but only if the latter agrees to become the former's personal architect. Roark would have no input into the designs and would have to execute whatever crummy design Wynand has in mind. After Roark tells him to shove his offer somewhere painful, Wynand backs down, but explicitly says the offer was not a Secret Test of Character. He badly wanted Roark to give in, because Wynand enjoys making talented, idealistic people betray their principles.
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The Fountainhead / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Fountainhead / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Toohey is the worst example. Peter Keating's mother is almost as bad.
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The Fountainhead / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Fountainhead / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Roark marries Dominique and the two live Happily Ever After, but Wynand is utterly broken and defeated. Toohey loses his job as a columnist for Wynand, but quickly gets hired to write for a magazine. We never find out exactly what becomes of Keating after the Cortlandt trial, but it's strongly hinted that his career as an architect is completely blown to hell.
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The Fountainhead / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Fountainhead / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!:
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The Fountainhead / int_420a8323	type	Smart Ball
The Fountainhead / int_420a8323	comment	Smart Ball: Steve grabs this in the last quarter of the book. He has seen how Dominique marrying other men have hurt Howard, and not helping is she sabotaged his career. Marrying Gail Wynand is the worst, since "The Banner" destroyed the Stoddard Temple. Steven advises Howard to give up on her because it's not worth pursuing someone who hurts you on a regular basis. Roark gives him a Big "SHUT UP!" in return.
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The Fountainhead / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The Fountainhead / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Dominique's black dress and matching cape have white ermine trim.
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The Fountainhead / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Fountainhead / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Howard's biggest Fatal Flaw. He refuses to compromise, even on the arts of domesticity or love. Case in point: Dominique makes a pit stop at his nearest project before she goes to marry Gail. She then suggests that he give up architecture and they live in the town here. Howard is amused and tells her to marry Mr. Wynand.
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The Fountainhead / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Fountainhead / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Catherine Halsey. Elsworth Toohey, her uncle, accepted custody of her specifically so he could do it.
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The Fountainhead / int_4ea4ad70	type	Rebellious Spirit
The Fountainhead / int_4ea4ad70	comment	Rebellious Spirit: Roark
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The Fountainhead / int_4f995f60	type	Train-Station Goodbye
The Fountainhead / int_4f995f60	comment	Train-Station Goodbye
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The Fountainhead / int_5094d45e	type	Tabloid Melodrama
The Fountainhead / int_5094d45e	comment	Tabloid Melodrama: "The Banner" is a lurid tabloid filled with loathsome values, directed toward the most vulgar tastes of the crowd. Wynand is aware of its malevolence, but keeps editing it because it's very profitable.
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The Fountainhead / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Fountainhead / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: How Henry Cameron deals with commercial failure and with society's refusal to accept his ideas.
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The Fountainhead / int_54f731b9	type	Only a Model
The Fountainhead / int_54f731b9	comment	Only a Model: When Howard's first major building is built, there is a party held there, with a miniature of the building displayed.
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The Fountainhead / int_58030b25	type	Visual Innuendo
The Fountainhead / int_58030b25	comment	Visual Innuendo: When Toohey is showing examples of Peter Keating's work. Each and every building features a nice, tall tower.
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The Fountainhead / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
The Fountainhead / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Subverted by Dominique. After Dominique's "rape" at the hands of Howard Roark, she contemplates how horrified everyone would be that their imperious Ice Queen Dominique was "violated." She, however, gleefully fantasizes about the look of shock in their eyes as she proudly announces news of her ravishment.
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The Fountainhead / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
The Fountainhead / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Gail spends much of the book trying to break people and use their stories to sell papers, without caring about the consequences. He refuses to take responsibility for causing a writer to commit suicide. After Dominique marries him, however, she keeps the telegram he used to fire her taped to her wardrobe mirror, and tortures him by making him see No Skin Off Your Nose. Gail manages to win by saying getting hurt by Dominique is Worth It because he's married to her, but he is clearly shaken that she actually pushed his buttons. Then Toohey spearheads a rebellion against him for daring to defend Howard Roark, which causes the public to turn against Gail. It makes the man develop a Heel Realization that he creates monsters, and has no excuses for it.
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The Fountainhead / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Fountainhead / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The plot is streamlined down from the novel and extraneous characters are dropped.
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The Fountainhead / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
The Fountainhead / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Dominique and Gail getting married originally comes off as this.
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The Fountainhead / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
The Fountainhead / int_5e7163c9	comment	Many interesting essays have been written about the fact that Ayn Rand's ideal man is, by her definition, a rapist. Of course, there are also many who interpret such scenes rather differently. See Alternative Character Interpretation on the YMMV tab.
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The Fountainhead / int_5f49ac76	type	Single-Target Sexuality
The Fountainhead / int_5f49ac76	comment	Single-Target Sexuality: Howard never shows any sexual interest in anyone but Dominique, period. This would have been averted in a scene ultimately cut from the novel, in which Roark has a relationship with an actress named Vesta Dunning before meeting Dominique.
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The Fountainhead / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Fountainhead / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Gail Wynand and Peter Keating. Also Guy Francon, although he was never really a terrible guy, and the same could arguably said about Dominique Francon when she starts to begin accepting things.
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The Fountainhead / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Fountainhead / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Ironic, considering that sacrifice is noted as usually being stupid in the book, but in order to gain some self-respect and assist Roark, Gail Wynand sacrifices a ton of money and all of his corrupted New York publications. It should be noted that by Objectivist standards, Wynand isn't making an actual sacrifice; he's exchanging what is a lesser value to him (money and newspapers) in order to gain a greater value to him (integrity to his values).
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The Fountainhead / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Fountainhead / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Roark confronts Gail Wynand accusing the editor of not remembering the campaign against the Enright House, since it was one of his many smear campaigns. Subverted when Gail retorts that while he stands by the campaign, he wasn't the editor at that time and claims to be aware of the damage inflicted to Roark by its publication.
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The Fountainhead / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Fountainhead / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Dominique Francon is essentially Ayn Rand in a bad mood (by Rand's own admission).
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The Fountainhead / int_67d5984e	type	Mills and Boon Prose
The Fountainhead / int_67d5984e	comment	Mills and Boon Prose: The "rape" scene. Hoo boy... the participants genitals aren't even mentioned! There is some Values Dissonance involved here, as this book was written in The '40s and Ayn Rand had to submit to the editorial standards and practices of the time.
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The Fountainhead / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Fountainhead / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Wynand, at the end, from feeling he's not as worthy of a man as Howard.
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The Fountainhead / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
The Fountainhead / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Dominique, for a very long time, keeps the telegram that says "fire the bitch" after she marries Gail. Gail actually has the decency to look horrified about it, and maybe even a little guilty. He also never removes it, waiting for Dominique to do so.
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The Fountainhead / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Fountainhead / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Absolutely no one suspects Dominique's affair with Roark, even after she poses nude for a statue in one of his buildings.
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The Fountainhead / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Fountainhead / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Later in the book, the word "bromide" becomes one — referring to the common (at the time) use of bromides as sedatives. Howard Roark's name might also be used this way in places. "Second-hander" is an increasingly important arc word as the book progresses.
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The Fountainhead / int_77e73dc7	type	Food as Bribe
The Fountainhead / int_77e73dc7	comment	Food as Bribe: As a boy, Toohey lets a classmate copy from him during a test in exchange for a bag of jellybeans. He later turns the candy over to the teacher and admits his guilt, but refuses to name the other student. He's the only one to get any punishment, but the incident throws suspicion on most of his classmates.
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The Fountainhead / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The Fountainhead / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Dominique and Howard Roark take this to some pretty extreme levels.
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The Fountainhead / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Fountainhead / int_7fbe9a30	comment	When Katie finds out that her fiance married another woman behind her back, she has a Freak Out and a breakdown. Toohey had specifically adopted her to break Katie, but when she started insulting him in the middle of heartbreak, he got a doctor to help take care of her. He did also help her get a government job as a social worker, which helped her deal with the loss. Of course, we only have Katie's word on it so the actual circumstances may have been worse.
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The Fountainhead / int_803e3201	type	Satanic Archetype
The Fountainhead / int_803e3201	comment	Satanic Archetype: Ellsworth Toohey, a devious master manipulator who prides himself on using false or dishonest promises to tempt people into giving up what is most valuable to them. His status as a Satan-figure becomes more overt in his private confession to Peter Keating in Part Four, where he outright describes himself as a collector of souls and explains that his greatest dream is to enslave the entire world and turn it into a Hell-realm of endless misery.
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The Fountainhead / int_820ac351	type	It Amused Me
The Fountainhead / int_820ac351	comment	It Amused Me: The reason Gail Wynand breaks men of integrity. Also, to prove to himself that he wasn't wrong when he decided that humanity was contemptible. Gail gets a Heel Realization about this later.
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The Fountainhead / int_83535879	type	Tall Poppy Syndrome
The Fountainhead / int_83535879	comment	Tall Poppy Syndrome: It's an Ayn Rand novel, so this is par for the course. What sets it apart is that Big Bad Ellsworth Toohey is firmly aware of the trope and even actively invokes it on a massive scale, whereas some of Rand's other villains genuinely believe in what they're doing. In one particularly long monologue, Toohey explicitly spells out that his whole goal in life is to break anyone with genuine talent and genius while propping up the mediocre, thus destroying all forms of art and keeping the masses stupid, docile, and under the thumb of his personal inner circle: "We don't want any thinking men."
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The Fountainhead / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Fountainhead / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Gail Wynand does this when he starts his "crusade" for Howard Roark.
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The Fountainhead / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Fountainhead / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Ellsworth Toohey, the Big Bad of the novel. A newspaper columnist and dedicated altruist, he's one of the most beloved men in New York. He uses his writing to sway public opinion and try to convince everyone to be as charitable to others as possible, but his actual goal is to seize power for himself and his inner circle by keeping the masses downtrodden and preventing truly great minds from making any real change in society.
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The Fountainhead / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Fountainhead / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Each of the four main male characters (Roark, Wynand, Toohey and Keating) are embodiments of a specific code of ethics. The three who embody moral codes Rand disagrees with are deconstructions of their respective morality. Peter Keating, described by Rand's notes as "the man who couldn't be, and doesn't know it" embodies altruistic morality from a subservient perspective, i.e. he exists for other people. As such he is a pathetic wreck that has no will of his own, is easily manipulated by others (especially his mother) and repressed his talent at art in favor of being a more 'socially acceptable' architect. Ellsworth Toohey, "the man who couldn't be, and knows it" is a deconstruction of altruism from a 'dominant' perspective. He sees himself as a 'collector of souls' who has no interest in anything but controlling other people and uses altruistic morality to do so. Because he, like Keating, derives his psychological sustenance/identity from power over others, he too is 'selfless' (as Rand uses the term). Gail Wynand, "the man who could have been", is a deconstruction of the popular interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's "Overman" morality; he seeks power over others but in doing so ends up controlled by them. He realizes he is indeed just as much of a psychological parasite as Ellsworth Toohey.
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The Fountainhead / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
The Fountainhead / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: The only thing more controversial than the philosophical content of this novel is whether or not Roark literally raped Dominique. It was clearly a "Bodice-ripper" style sex scene, and Dominique does describe the encounter as "rape" several times. However, not only were they clearly playing the "yes means no" coy courtship game beforehand, but Dominique described the sex as "rape" as part of a fantasy where she shocked everyone by publically announcing "I've been raped!" Saying "I've had really rough bodice-ripping ravishment-sex" probably wouldn't cause the desired effect. Many interesting essays have been written about the fact that Ayn Rand's ideal man is, by her definition, a rapist. Of course, there are also many who interpret such scenes rather differently. See Alternative Character Interpretation on the YMMV tab.
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The Fountainhead / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Fountainhead / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Dominique clearly needs one. Wynand is in quite dire need of one also; when the third part of the book begins, he's putting a gun to his head and wondering if anything in his life to date can inspire him to pull the trigger.
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The Fountainhead / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Fountainhead / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Dominique operates that she can hurt people because that is how life is and screw it for everyone else. It's why even Steven advises Howard to give up on her because Dominique only cares about the chaos she can cause. Even when Dominique apologizes to Peter for using him and destroying him with superficial kindness, she doesn't mention Katie at all, and Domonique knew that Katie existed.
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The Fountainhead / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Fountainhead / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Gail Wynand to Howard Roark. Both are highly creative, talented men, but where Roark stuck determinedly to his principles, Wynand chose the second-hander path out of cynicism.
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The Fountainhead / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
The Fountainhead / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: At one point, Roark is hired by a real estate company to design a resort complex and does such a good job that the place is fully booked within a month of opening. He later learns that the company had deliberately oversold its stock as part of a scam and hired Roark as the worst architect for the job, intending for the resort to fail.
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The Fountainhead / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Fountainhead / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Howard Roark, when discussing some realizations about second-handers with Gail Wynand, leaves off one most egregious: the man who desires power.
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The Fountainhead / int_9fc60cc5	type	Glurge
The Fountainhead / int_9fc60cc5	comment	Glurge: In-universe example. Everything written by Alvah Scarret. Deconstructed; a morality based upon sickeningly-sweet pity means that no one has any reason to truly want a world where people do not suffer (because without suffering to soothe, one cannot be moral).
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The Fountainhead / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Fountainhead / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Gail doesn't react well when he reads all the Banner's takes on Howard Roark, including the Stoddard Trial coverage. He maintains he would have stood by it if he weren't traveling at the time, but Howard pinpoints that the man is actually capable of feeling guilt. Mrs. Keating has this reaction after Dominique divorces Peter, who ends up in Heroic BSoD. After all, she was the one who encouraged Peter to become an architect and toss aside Katie, the girl he loved, in favor of Dominique. Mrs. Keating tries to cook his favorite foods and ask about his happiness, even suggesting he could marry Katie if he wished and would have her blessing. Peter is so mad by this that he refuses to even dignify that with an answer, and nothing she does can fix the damage she caused him.
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The Fountainhead / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Fountainhead / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The ending. Cutting to Roark and Dominique's happy ending right after Wynand's suicide is jarring, to say the least.
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The Fountainhead / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
The Fountainhead / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Gail Wynand is a man. Yes, really.
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The Fountainhead / int_a7fa2fa4	type	Crossing the Burnt Bridge
The Fountainhead / int_a7fa2fa4	comment	Crossing the Burnt Bridge: Inverted; the "Banner" destroyed the Stoddard Temple, and its editor marries Dominique Francon. Thus, Gail is the only person that Howard comes close to loathing. Howard still goes to meet Gail when the guy wants a house for himself and his wife, preparing to refuse on principle. Gail only later learns that he should have done his homework on the man.
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The Fountainhead / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
The Fountainhead / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: as in the novel. Ayn Rand insisted that it be given verbatim as she wrote it. The resulting scene is around six minutes of pure monologue.
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The Fountainhead / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
The Fountainhead / int_abe1e24e	comment	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: More like "principled cannot comprehend unprincipled", but Roark has difficulty understanding the mindset of people who prioritize winning the approval of others over doing the work they love as well as possible. Lampshaded by Steven Mallory, who describes Roark as a man so healthy that he can't imagine what it's like to be sick.
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The Fountainhead / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Fountainhead / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Gail has this reaction when he finds out most of the Banner's stories on Howard are about the Stoddard Temple lawsuit. He still can't stop reading.
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The Fountainhead / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Fountainhead / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Ellsworth Toohey's motivation. Along with the wish for power.
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The Fountainhead / int_ae136edf	type	Plagiarism in Fiction
The Fountainhead / int_ae136edf	comment	Plagiarism in Fiction: Deconstructed. Peter has a habit of asking Howard to finish his designs, even when he's disavowed the man in public and called him a fraud. Howard complies because he finds the joy of drawing a building better than any personal grudges. People eventually realize, however, that Peter's other buildings lack talent and his firm starts going down the toilet. It comes to a head, however, when Keating asks for help with Cortlandt, and Howard makes him sign an agreement that's not legally binding; Toohey forces Keating to give up his copy of the paper and read it out at the trial. Peter's career as a result is destroyed.
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The Fountainhead / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Fountainhead / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The narrator falls into this at times. The description of the Stanton Institute of Technology notes all the classicist design features that would make it highly defensible in the event of a medieval siege ... which a modern university isn't likely to face.
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The Fountainhead / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Fountainhead / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Roark goes to see the redesigned Stoddard Temple. Toohey comes out and begs him not to run away, expecting the man to see him as The Dreaded. He's actually exhausted about the fact that a great work of architecture was destroyed in the courts. Toohey then encourages Roark to spill out any vitriol, any thoughts, or anger. Roark refuses to give the man a reaction or any opinion whatsoever, on the building or Toohey. They part civilly, with Toohey both considering Roark a Worthy Opponent and Graceful Loser as well as a potential thorn in his side.
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The Fountainhead / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
The Fountainhead / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: Peter Keating works his way up through the ranks of Guy Francon's designers by getting them fired or persuading them to quit. He ultimately makes partner by deliberately causing Lucius Heyer to suffer a fatal stroke.
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The Fountainhead / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Fountainhead / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Peter Keating's mother. She pays for it, eventually.
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The Fountainhead / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Fountainhead / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Most of the characters suffer this problem, that it has to be their way or the high way and all about them. It says something that Katie calls out Peter for this during their last meeting; he tries to apologize for breaking her heart but says he ought to have married her because it was what he wanted to do, rather than the fact that he jilted her. Katie, the wounded party, says what he's telling her is "ugly and selfish".
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The Fountainhead / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
The Fountainhead / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: If you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. Peter spends his whole life pleasing other people rather than becoming a painter, and his mother encourages that, browbeating him into giving up the woman he loved. As a result, Peter becomes a Broken Bird who regrets that he spent his life living for someone else. Also, try not to win an authority figure's approval. They may have an ulterior motive and break your spirit. Gail is an obvious example of his pet projects— finding writers specifically to break them but paying them handsomely for their souls. Toohey is another one, only he just does it to "collect souls". Don't trust a romantic partner that will drop you for a Gold Digger opportunity. If Peter had just broken up with Katie honestly, she wouldn't have clung to the hope of marrying him. Katie later says it seems conceited of Peter for him to ask how she felt about him jilting her when it was a horrible experience.
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The Fountainhead / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
The Fountainhead / int_be192f18	comment	Alvah Scarret is a Yes-Man to Gail, being the Moral Pragmatist who sells the papers. Then he learns that Gail has a habit of finding men with integrity and breaking them because he wants to believe no one sticks to their convictions. Alvah's horrified when Gail's first victim, Dwight Carson, becomes a dipsomaniac (alcoholic), two other men become drug addicts and one becomes suicidal. He tries with no avail to advise Gail that his hobby is akin to murder. Gail of course, doesn't listen. It gets worse than Gail fires Dwight, after breaking the man thoroughly.
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The Fountainhead / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
The Fountainhead / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": Roark does this so often that it's practically his Catchphrase, usually when someone asks if he understands how difficult or risky his plan will be.
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The Fountainhead / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
The Fountainhead / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: Dominique has a very extreme case of this. She still believes in her ideals, but it is because she believes in them that she is so completely disgusted with the entire world around her. Indeed, at one point in the book, she agrees with Gail Wynand's statement that "one cannot love humanity without hating most of humankind" (or words to that effect).
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The Fountainhead / int_c3cb84e2	type	Simple, yet Opulent
The Fountainhead / int_c3cb84e2	comment	Simple, yet Opulent: Dominique's black evening dress and cape have little decoration other than each having a bit of white ermine trim.
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The Fountainhead / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
The Fountainhead / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: Gail Wynand, who tried to be a hero, but was beaten. It didn't help, however, that Dominique and Howard both saw him as Secretly Selfish and loved him too much to be blunt about it.
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The Fountainhead / int_c77ad743	type	Mentor Archetype
The Fountainhead / int_c77ad743	comment	Mentor Archetype: Henry Cameron is a clear example; he's one of the only men Roark actually respects and until his dying breath he teaches and advises Roark on architecture. Another example is the Math Professor at the Stanton Institute of Technology. When the rest of the school wanted Roark expelled for designing modernist buildings, he advocated vigorously on Roark's behalf.
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The Fountainhead / int_c960dde7	type	Melodrama
The Fountainhead / int_c960dde7	comment	Melodrama: The film isn't subtle in its message or tone.
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The Fountainhead / int_ce82c89a	type	Peer Pressure Makes You Evil
The Fountainhead / int_ce82c89a	comment	Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: Okay, not exactly evil, but conforming to what the world wants doesn't work out for Peter Keating so well. Gail Wynand comes to a bad end when he submits to the 'will of the people' as well.
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The Fountainhead / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Fountainhead / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Gail Wynand. Peter Keating too, if you would even consider him a villain.
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The Fountainhead / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The Fountainhead / int_d08595d3	comment	If you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. Peter spends his whole life pleasing other people rather than becoming a painter, and his mother encourages that, browbeating him into giving up the woman he loved. As a result, Peter becomes a Broken Bird who regrets that he spent his life living for someone else.
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The Fountainhead / int_d3f67567	type	Personal Hate Before Common Goals
The Fountainhead / int_d3f67567	comment	Personal Hate Before Common Goals: This is Ellsworth Toohey's main driving motivation. He knows full well that he'd be just as miserable as everyone else if his proposed social schemes were ever actually implemented, but he cares more about destroying Roark and those like him than he does about his own well-being.
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The Fountainhead / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Fountainhead / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Mike's real name is Sean Xavier Donnigan, but no one ever calls him that because they've forgotten it.
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The Fountainhead / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
The Fountainhead / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Toohey gives quite a few.
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The Fountainhead / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Fountainhead / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Howard Roark, for Frank Lloyd Wright. Gail Wynand, for Joseph Pulitzer.
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The Fountainhead / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Fountainhead / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Howard Roark will never back down. Never. True to this trait, he blows up what used to be his building because a bunch of Toohey's architect goons screwed with it. THEN, he just stands there, looking at it. He doesn't even care that he would obviously be caught, arrested, and put in jail! And it turns out he freaking planned it that way in the first place, anyway! Gail Wynand shows this trait as a teenager, first beating down three fellow gang members sent to discipline him, then later crawling to a saloon for help even after getting both legs broken in a brutal beating.
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The Fountainhead / int_e8f13234	type	Rightly Self-Righteous
The Fountainhead / int_e8f13234	comment	Rightly Self-Righteous: Roark has nothing but indifference at best and contempt at worst for most of the other characters. Beyond Roark's social bubble of Dominique, Mike, and Mallory, everyone else is, to some degree, morally compromised and opposed to the Randian ideal man Roark represents. Wynand sits on the borderline, being friends with Roark and a lover to Dominique, but ultimately falls short due to his ambitions towards exercising control over society via the media empire he built, his supposed power being condemned as a noose at both ends.
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The Fountainhead / int_ea38ddd5	type	Sissy Villain
The Fountainhead / int_ea38ddd5	comment	Sissy Villain / Smug Snake: Ellsworth Toohey
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The Fountainhead / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Fountainhead / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Peter Keating, his mother, Catherine Halsey (the only girl he ever truly loved), Ellsworth Toohey, Gail Wynand, and Dominique Francon all demonstrate this at various times. Henry Cameron does this in order to protect young architects from suffering the same sad fate as him. Howard Roark insists on taking the hard road right along with him.
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The Fountainhead / int_ec0bf4a1	type	Take Over the World
The Fountainhead / int_ec0bf4a1	comment	Take Over the World: This is ultimately Ellsworth Toohey's goal, as he spells out in the nine-page Character Filibuster described above. His whole plan is to gain control over the critics of various fields—theater, literature, sculpture, architecture, and such—and train them to reject anything genuinely groundbreaking and positive in the name of bland, uninspired, "second-hand" work. This will in turn convince the public to reject new, innovative ideas and only listen to what Toohey and his personal inner circle want them to believe, thus giving them complete power over humanity and, by extension, the world.
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The Fountainhead / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
The Fountainhead / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Howard, of all people. Dominique not only deliberately screws with his career, she runs off and marries other guys TWICE, and he still just quietly waits around for her to come to her senses. Dominique attempts to be one in her own twisted way, but it just doesn't work.
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The Fountainhead / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
The Fountainhead / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Roark was born to a poor industrial worker. He paid his own way through college by doing construction work.
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The Fountainhead / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
The Fountainhead / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Deconstructed. The book in effect argues that Conspicuous Consumption is a form of selflessness because it is premised on the belief that one's primary value is how other people think of oneself, thus rendering one a psychological parasite.
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The Fountainhead / int_f1e68523	type	The Not-Love Interest
The Fountainhead / int_f1e68523	comment	The Not-Love Interest: Gail Wynand to Howard Roark. The narration outright describes Gail as the one friend Howard loved deeply enough to compromise for, and all-but-explicitly compares this to Gail's "exception-making" love for his former wife, Dominique.
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The Fountainhead / int_f1ef5d62	type	Bromance
The Fountainhead / int_f1ef5d62	comment	Bromance: Roark and Wynand, Roark and Mallory, Mike and Mallory. All of these can possibly be interpreted as Ho Yay by at least some readers. Roark and Wynand's Bromance comes, intentionally or otherwise, across as pretty, ahem, subtexty. Roark and Steve Mallory is total hurt/comfort material. Even the Objectivist scholar Chris Matthew Sciabarra devoted a chapter in his "Ayn Rand, Homosexuality and Human Liberation" to "Male Bonding in the Randian Novel."
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The Fountainhead / int_f231fc12	type	I Love You Because I Can't Control You
The Fountainhead / int_f231fc12	comment	I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Arguably this describes Wynand's feelings for Roark (feelings which Rand herself described as "romantic" in one of her journals).
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The Fountainhead / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
The Fountainhead / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: A broken Katie quite aptly says to Peter that it's conceited of him to ask how she felt after he broke her heart and married someone else behind her back. She also calls him selfish for trying to apologize for not marrying her but making it all about him.
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The Fountainhead / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
The Fountainhead / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Don't trust a romantic partner that will drop you for a Gold Digger opportunity. If Peter had just broken up with Katie honestly, she wouldn't have clung to the hope of marrying him. Katie later says it seems conceited of Peter for him to ask how she felt about him jilting her when it was a horrible experience.
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The Fountainhead / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
The Fountainhead / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: For columns (and testimony in court) that are supposed to damn the hell out of Roark's work, you can figure out that Dominique actually likes it. During her court testimony against Roark's buildings, she actually says she doesn't want to save people from the building, but the building from people.
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The Fountainhead / int_fab3235a	type	Easy Evangelism
The Fountainhead / int_fab3235a	comment	Easy Evangelism: A concerted media campaign turns the public against Roark; but a speech from him gets them on his side.
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The Fountainhead / int_fc3f3cf3	type	Little Black Dress
The Fountainhead / int_fc3f3cf3	comment	Little Black Dress: Dominique's style is shown with a long, black evening dress, with just a touch of white fur on the neckline.
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The Fountainhead / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Fountainhead / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Toohey has a lot of them, for someone meant to be the Big Bad. Toohey defends Steven Mallory, the sculptor who tried to shoot him. Letting him rot in jail or be executed would have been better for Toohey since Mallory ends up working for Howard, the greatest thorn in Toohey's side. Mallory doesn't appreciate it because he was able to see who and what Toohey really was. The man was responsible for the Stoddard Temple being destroyed, along with Howard's reputation. When Roark comes to see the redesigned Temple, Toohey tells him not to run away and seems sympathetic about Howard looking at his greatest work being ruined. That goes away when Howard refuses to play Toohey's game by telling him what he really thinks of Toohey and his power, though Toohey lets him go into the night. When Katie finds out that her fiance married another woman behind her back, she has a Freak Out and a breakdown. Toohey had specifically adopted her to break Katie, but when she started insulting him in the middle of heartbreak, he got a doctor to help take care of her. He did also help her get a government job as a social worker, which helped her deal with the loss. Of course, we only have Katie's word on it so the actual circumstances may have been worse.
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The Fountainhead / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Fountainhead / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The American architectural community (or at least the more conservative element of it) during the 1920s-1940s was stuck in a classicist rut—this is why guys like Frank Lloyd Wright were so groundbreaking. Rand portrays the profession and the world of architecture criticism during this period accurately.
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