Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead shows illustrations of the view that an individual can achieve particular success or be moral. But Ayn Rand also illustrates that is possible to do both. Characters are given different situations in which a particular goal is trying to be achieved and Rand shows what path they take along the grounds of achieving the goal with morals. But through reading this book, I believe that Rand agrees with the conventional view and brings about her own view on the topic. Throughout the story, her character reference show both sides of the spectrum as far as the view that society created.
             The Fountainhead is the story which takes place in starting in 1922 with an architect named Howard Roark, whose has a mind-set that is considered to modern and advance for his time and the fight that he leads against the "conventional" standards that society in the time had provided. Peter Keating and Ellsworth M. Toohey are also two other main characters in which she describes the conventional view that society has and her feelings towards it.
             Roark is a man who believes only in himself. He considers it to be a dog-eat-dog world and that if you want to get someone, you can only worry about yourself. Rand makes Roark a symbol of individual nature. He rejects the ideal that one who is selfless and help other will eventually gain the happiness they have sought after. He, instead, believes that one who wants to prosper, must worry only about one's self. In the path to happiness, the only person along that road is you and that anyone else who may get in the way is just a roadblock that you should ignore and overcome to lead yourself to the prosperity that you have worked long and hard for.
             Peter Keating is considered to be a man who would lie, cheat, steal or kill to make is to the make an impression on everyone. He may seem like a respectable man who would do right, but he knows his true self to be someone w...