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Fortinbras Armstrong

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6. One thing to point out about The Fountainhead
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 11:21 AM
Oct 2020

Why does Roark blow up that building? Because he is pissed off at the owners. Destroying someone else's property out of personal pique is unacceptable behavior in a three-year-old.

And why is he pissed off at the owners? Because they changed his design for the building. In the real world, this happens all the time. In the mid-1980s, I worked as a technical writer for a software company. They had me write an article for Byte magazine, and while I was writing it, my boss and several other people read and criticized each draft. When it came out, the only pieces to remain intact from my first draft were the opening and closing paragraphs. Did I throw a tantrum? Of course not.

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