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Roark 's Relationship With His Employees

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1. What is Roark’s relationship with his employees like? Roark’s relationship with his employees was fair. There were not many conflicts between Roark and his employees because they worked as if everybody else did not exist. From an employee’s perspective, Roark looked cold and unemotional. However, looking at the fact that employees were “loyal” to Roark, employees probably had some empathy with Roark. Also, when Roark saw employee’s progress or their creativity, he did not openly show his satisfaction toward employees but made a “compliment debt” instead. 2. How does Toohey reply when his religious friend, Hopton Stoddard, asks if Roark is religious? Do you agree with his answer? Toohey says Roark does not believe in God but is …show more content…

Earlier in the book, Roark mentioned that only objectivist people can appreciate the beauty of his work. While no one appreciated Mallory’s work, since he had a bad reputation for shooting Toohey, Roark loved his work and believed that his sculptures will blend well with his temple. Also, Roark knew that Mallory will not reject his commission because he knew Mallory will like his temple as well.

2. What changes for Dominique when Roark walks into the room? Dominique pretends as if she were not interested in Roark. Dominique acted as a quiet, relentless lady at least to keep her reputation as a Roark critic. However, Dominique stared at Roark, not long enough to get noticed by Mallory.

3. According to Ellsworth Toohey, why can a humanitarian never indulge in personal love? In Toohey’s conversation with Keating, Toohey mentions the reason to never indulge in personal love. Toohey believed that personal love is a euphemism of “discrimination” or “preference” towards a person. With prejudice towards people, human equality will be impossible to accomplish. If someone is in love, one will make selfish or biased decisions and this will violate, according to Toohey, “the first cosmic law--the basic equality of all men.”

4. What is the war that, according to Howard Roark, has victimized Stephen Mallory? According to Roark, the war that has victimized Mallory was against the enemy with “no name

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