Fountainhead

Notes

Peter Keating / Howard Roark
Protagonists rewarded for their ego, narcissism, selfishness
Central female characters portrayed as weak-minded, submissive, exercise an empty form of power
Construction and sex evoke the same emotions in Roark - power, control, domination, phallic symbol of modernist skyscraper
"Rape" scene - likened to Roark's first experience of walking through a construction which he designed.
Catherine => weak, infantile, "we wouldn't love you if you were graceful as a duchess" (p245)

"Of all the crafts, yours is the most important. Important, not in the amount of money you might make, not in the degree of artists skill you might exhibit, but in the service you render to your fellow men. You are those who provide mankind's shelter...You are not lackeys of the rich. You are crusaders of the cause of the underprivileged and the unsheltered...and when our system of society collapses, the craft of builders will not be swept under, it will be swept up to greater prominence, and greater recognition." (p251)