Camille Kelleher
9/15/13
Post #5
He was a penniless adventure who
made a fortune through hard work and perseverance. He developed his opinions from his own morals and values. People can’t understand how this kind of
“miracle” happened because of how unaccustomed and unfamiliar they are with
this type of successful endeavor. He had achieved his own dreams and wealth
without the aid of politics, brotherhood and stealing. After reading about 500
pages, the passage (on page 62) that introduces Nat Taggart has a completely
different meaning to me.
The only
person that Dagny puts her faith in is Nat Taggart. He is her form of prayer,
sign of optimism and hope, and promise of vision and success. Dagny’s
connection with her ancestor is what guarantees the reader that she will never
succumb to the destroyer. Within the past hundreds of pages, Dagny’s tolerance
and control of the struggles and defeats from Washington DC and other
industrialists has equalized her to the fame of Nat, at least in her own mind.
After Directive 10-289 was passed and Dagny decided to resign, the readers know
that she is not lost forever like the other men who disappeared, but rather
that she will come back with a grandeur and strategic plan to defeat the politicians,
“only the feeling that she was going to join him, not in death, but in that
which had made his life” (pg. 512.) Dagny
leaves the readers with a promise that she will come back and help Rearden; it
is not the end of her era or the beginning of the Era of Love.
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