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Roark rapes his future lover (but it's apparently ok because she liked it, though she gave no sign of such at the time). He blows up a building that he doesn't
by manifestsilence 7y ago
Roark rapes his future lover (but it's apparently ok because she liked it, though she gave no sign of such at the time). He blows up a building that he doesn't own. He tells his colleague who wanted to be a painter that it's too late for him, that he's wasted his life on the wrong thing and there's nothing he can do about it, without any other words of encouragement or alternative suggestions. He is always described as not caring about the emotions or reactions of anyone else.
Edit: it's always couched in rhetoric about how people are supposed to be free from unnecessary worry about other peoples' problems, but she often takes it too far and causes characters to cross the line from self-actualized to selfish, and sometimes harmful to others.
- eej71 7y agore: the rape scene. There is a clue as to how Dominique feels about it at the end of the scene. Recall that she draws a bath - but then never climbs in. She merely runs her fingers through the water.
- manifestsilence 7y agoYeah, but that's after, right? I'm talking about that she didn't give a sign of prior consent to him, which would affect the moral and legal status of that action.