Francisco's role has been extremely variable as the novel has unfolded. He starts off as this guy that Dagny and many others looked up too. He was a man who was destined for glory. I personally really liked him.
As the novel progressed, he turned into a characteristically negative 'playboy'. His actions of purposely screwing over the stock holders of his company annoyed me as well. His overall attitude made him seem arrogant and spiteful to some degree. He takes on a role that goes against his values, as well as Dagny's and Hank's. Although saying all of this, I began to feel as if he was acting all of this out strategically. I get this feeling mainly from his development as a character when he speaks with Hank.
He reveals to us that he still has feelings for this one particular girl (cough cough Dagny) and that he has never actually slept with any of the skanks that he's hung around with over the past years. Francisco's speech in the end of chapter four, part two, reveals more of his beliefs to us. He basically explains that those who have sex with people that they genuinely care about have good morals and that those who have sex with just anyone display bad morals. Its funny that he has been acting characteristically similar to the latter, and the fact that he explains that people like that have bad morals sticks out to me. Nobody would blatantly say that they have bad morals.
To me, Rand is manipulating the character of Francisco as if she's playing a chess game. I'm not entirely sure on what she's trying to do. All I know is that something is evident in her use of Francisco.
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