In Dagny’s case, they were exactly the same. In Dominic’s case, there were significant differences between the three of them. In her love life Dominique Francon … I mean, Dagny Taggart is at the crossroads between three men – Hank, Francisco and John (Howard, Gail and Peter). And she spent the time between the meetings trying to slip under their feet. Dagny, on the other hand, fell in love every time she saw a man, and that continued until she saw a new one. Dominique was the woman who singlehandedly built pyres of her love in order to offer it a dignified end. Yet there was a bit of a difference between Dominique and Dagny. Also, both Dominique and Dagny agreed to be the third person in the stories of Howard and Gail, and Francisco and Hank, respectively. Hank decided that Dagny’s reputation in society was more important than his own respect for her. Gail thought that Dominique was another item in his collection of artwork. They accepted all humiliations from the men around them. Then, they transform into a luxurious doormat. Dagny and Dominique are proud independent women until they meet a man. In their whole lives as adults, they have seen in others only emptiness, lack of ability, service to the doctrine of death, and destruction of beauty. A woman, born into a rich family, but has decided to win her own battles. Some of the similarities between Dagny and Dominique are obvious. She did not have a choice but to write the same book again but in a more simple and idiotic way. People resulted to be too stupid to be manipulated by a genius.

And then… the world did not understand her. This book is her personal message to humanity and her biggest triumph over it. She managed to entangle everything good in the black web of spiritual death and to leave readers to wander hopelessly in the labyrinth of delusion. She has created a supreme masterpiece of manipulation. Ayn Rand has just finished “Тhe Fountainhead”.

Dagny atlas shrugged