The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand ? The Fountainhead
Standing naked on top of a cliff, Howard Roark envisions what the trees and granite around him can be made into. He is an architect, ingenious and creative. None of like any other at the Stanton Institute of Technology. He had been pondering about his life and the events of that morning. He had just been expelled by the dean for being creative and a nonconformist. This immediately ascertains the theme of the novel, and sets up the novel?s storyline.
Peter Keating, the complete opposite of Howard Roark, is the second character introduced. He is an over-achiever and a fraud. Keating is graduating with highest honors in his class and is receiving a scholarship to attend the Ecole des Beaux Arts, a prestigious art school in Paris.
Guy Francon, a nationally known architecture that owns ?Francon & Heyer? with Lucius Heyer, offers Peter Keating a job. He is charmed by Peter Keating?s sociable personality and at his achievements at Stanton. Questioning whether to accept Francon?s offer or go to Paris and study abroad is puzzling Keating.
At home he sees Howard Roark just sitting on his porch.
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