Roark’s failure and Keating’s success — *The Fountainhead* Part I [80th Anniversary series]

The Fountainhead‘s themes are independence and integrity. In Part One, novelist Ayn Rand’s primary purpose is to contrast the characters Howard Roark and Peter Keating. Here is a table summarizing the main events in each young man’s early career. Structurally, each plot event for Roark is matched by an opposite event for Keating. Roark’s career …

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