![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Keating, another architect, who achieve greatness by copying others, while giving the illusion of originality and creativity. Howard Roark struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. As Roark states at one point, he believes that buildings, like people, have one central theme or idea, and that idea cannot be compromised. Roark's architectural design of buildings are considered extremely radical and are considered by many fellow professionals as offensive because he fails to pay homage to the artistry of the period, and his stubbornness to collaborate with anyone on any part of his designs. "The Fountainhead" tells the story of Howard Roark, a young architect who is a self-contained human being, living entirely for himself-by his own definition of himself. In the iconoclastic character of the architect Howard Roark, she presented for the first time the kind of hero whose depiction was the chief goal of her writing: the ideal man, man as "he could be and ought to be." After struggling for several years at various non-writing jobs, Ayn Rand began writing The Fountainhead in 1935. ![]()
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