
However, Wynand is not as shallow as Keating he knows what is right, but has taken another road for the purpose of gaining power over people. She gets the commission for Keating, and in the process marries Wynand, because he is even more an enemy to Roark. Dominique meets with Gail Wynand, the owner of a very powerful chain of newspapers, to discuss a building he is planning.


Toohey assures him that to be truly happy, one must do away with the desire to be happy. Peter Keating begins to feel empty even though he is very successful. Not only does she get jobs for Peter Keating that might have gone to Roark, she marries Keating, Roark's competitor, and later marries Gail Wynand, and joins his plot to destroy Roark, although their motivations are quite different. There he meets Dominique Francon, his female equivalent, and starts a love affair with her that is painful for both of them she wishes to destroy him because he represents her "ideal" and no one deserves to have him in their world. Broke, he must get a job in a quarry owned by Guy Francon, doing manual labor. His goal is tostick with his own design and strives to make structures more efficient. Roark, on the other hand, cannot get work because he refuses to compromise and put useless features on his buildings. Ellsworth Toohey, a journalist who seems to be in charge unofficially of many organizations in the city, praises Keating highly.

They are just interested in impressing their friends or the public.

He makes his buildings for no other purpose than to please his clients and gain prestige, which he does completely, because not one of his clients is interested in quality. At first, Keating is the successful one he climbs high in his firm by pushing out those whose positions he wants, and gains commissions for his firm such as the Cosmo-Slotnik Building. They both go to New York City to begin their careers - Keating to a firm with a good reputation, Francon & Heyer, and Roark to work with a man that he knows understands his mission, Henry Cameron. The novel begins as Howard Roark is expelled from Stanton and Peter Keating graduates.
