In Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead, there are 2 kind of attitudes and characters which pull from each other and make up the conflict of the story. There is Howard Roark the independently thinking artist, and protagonist of the story, and Henry Cameron, the man who had values like Roark, but sold out on his beliefs. There is Peter Keating, the “second-hander, who takes credit for Roark’s work, and is more worried about what other …showed first 75 words of 883 total…

…showed last 75 words of 883 total…them out in the improper way. This holds true for Dominique as well. Keatling’s free loading second-handedness finally is revealed at the end, and he gets displayed as the fraud that he is. Toohey’s evil attempts to ruin Roark are also defeated at the end, when the court acquits Roark of the dynamiting. Toohey could not shackle a creater such as Roark, who was willing to fight proudly in what he believed in.