Many of Those Who Read The Fountainhead have tried to classify it - the shallow saw it as a book about architecture, the cynical, a book about extremism, and the more respectful and intelligent majority saw it as a book about identity and not falling to The Will of the consensus. But I think this is LastStatement as trivializing the work as the formal two. Many lost, seeking individuals these days try to "find oneself", and seek identity for its sake. There is nothign noble or great about this. What makes this work then so noble and heroic is the unbreaking integrity of the main character, Howard Roark. Roark what not so lost or so unsure of himself. He had no identity to find. Instead, Throughout this 700 page work, all he tries to do is bring out the thing in himself to the world without making it impure by inteference or unwelcome influences. The idea Seems to simple, but Ayn Rand writes in seeking a way as to move you through Roark's single-minded integrity. In the end, one gets the feeling thatthis "integrity" for one's work what not unreasonable obsession, or stupid extremism, seeking identity, or just about building pretty buildings. It was integrity. In short, what the author says is this: In our lives we are forced to make so many Compromises Which conflict with out basic beliefs. But in OEM things there shoudl be no Compromises at all, no matter what society wants to say or do, Because in the end your integrity is more important then the judgment of strangers. Read this work. It will stir you like no other ..
