Status Updates From The Fountainhead

Kinda long winded and the authors thoughts on objectivism gave McCarthyism a little ngl

The Banners board convenes and yell about Gail needing to concede, and he does with the condition that Toohey does not return, and with the finality of the feeling he had when he almost killed himself. He wanders around the city at night. He gets a copy of the banner and reads the denouncement of Roark on the front page. He realizes he gave power to this voice and cant be forgiven since he betrayed his greatness

Toohey writes about Roark in the Banner. Gail fires him and the three others involved. Toohey goes into his office laughing, saying it’s too late and that he will be back. The union strikes the paper, leaving Gail to run the paper with terrible new hires (basically by himself). Dom comes to work at the banner again. Gail visits Roark who tells him to not give in. The paper loses advertisers and isn’t being read

Toohey comes over to Peter’s; Peter has not been leaving his apartment. He asks Peter for the full story, since he knows that Roark helped him with the Cortlandt projects. He yells at Peter, who lamely gives up the contract he and Roark made. Toohey rants about wanting power to take over the world by breaking men’s souls to feel guilty, to be performing for and jealous of others, to make everything average

Amazing