Wynand and Roark have more conversations and continue bonding. Wynand thinks the people who read the Banner are fools. Wynand likes power. Roark avoids power; once he was offered power over a woman, and he refused it. Wynand hates people who are trying to find themselves.
Dominique defers to their friendship, her deference a sort of self-discipline.
Toohey holds a conversation with various rich friends. They kick around ideas: Freedom is achieved by total compulsion. Unselfishness is the greatest virtue.
One of Toohey's friends, Jessica Pratt, devoted her life to caring for her sister Renée, who eventually married Homer Slottern, owner of a chain of department stores. Renée is a slug.
Eve Layton is married to Mitchell Layton, the rich fellow Toohey talked into investing in the Banner. Eve's mission is to be avant garde, a few steps ahead of everyone else. Her husband hates her. Eve describes all of her philosophical conclusions as self-evident. There are no persons, just a collective; that's self-evident.
Sometimes I wonder where Ayn Rand came up with all these people who are so against freedom. Then today I was reminded that Rand grew up in the Soviet Union.
Oh, that's where.
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