"The Fountainhead"....

The Fountainhead is the story about the life of an idealistic young architect, Howard Roark, who chooses to struggle rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision by pandering to the prevailing taste in building design. Quite strangely he lives in the fourth dimension, least concerned about what the people around think of him. The author has beautifully characterized the people in the world into three categories. Firstly the people like Howard Roark who are incapable of relating to the others around them and who in their arrogance transform that incapacity into a life principle. Set against them are the ones like Peter Keating, another architect. Like Roark, Keating is totally self absorbed, but lacks Roark's arrogance. These are the ones who are dishonest for financial advantages and can even go to extend of asking the Roarks for help with a job and putting their own name on the job, albeit with their permission. And the rest are the people like Gail Wynand, who feel that they control the mob only till they say what the mob want them to say, but when they try to say what they want, then its all together a different thing. They are also the ones who try to be Roarks but aren't successful in doing so.

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