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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comINDIVIDUALISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 51Anthem had not, however, cured her of the squirms. Returning toNew York in the fall of 1937 Rand still found it impossible to completethe plot and outline of her larger novel. She couldn’t begin writinguntil she had the whole narrative structure down, but the pieces of thestory remained stubbornly fragmented and inchoate. She decided toescape her daily struggle by volunteering in the office of a noted NewYork architect, the modernist Ely Jacques Kahn. She worked for himwithout pay for six months in an arrangement that was kept secretfrom the rest of the office staff. Kahn was flattered and pleased to haveattracted the interest of a budding novelist, and Rand earned his gratitudeby expertly rearranging his files during her tenure. He took hisnew “employee” under his wing, offering her anecdotes from his owncareer and gossipy tidbits about other prominent architects. Rand casthim in the novel as Guy Francon, a once talented architect who is anincurable social climber.One morning Kahn suggested a resolution to her creative impassewhen he told her that the greatest problem architects face was housing.Rand remembered, “[T]he moment he said ‘housing,’ somethingclicked in my mind, because I thought, well now, there is a politicalissue and an architectural issue; that fits my purpose.” 34 Thinking overhis words at lunch, Rand quickly visualized the rest of the story. PeterKeating would seek a commission to build a public housing project.He would convince Roark, who is motivated by the intellectual challengeof the housing problem, to design it for him. Roark agrees tohelp on the condition that his building be built exactly as designed.When Roark’s plans are nonetheless altered he would destroy the building,an action that would allow Rand to explain the supremacy of theindividual creator over the needs of society. The rest of the characterswould react accordingly. Toohey would attack Roark, Wynand wouldtry to defend him, Peter would retreat in shame, and Dominique wouldreturn to him.Rand’s excitement over the central unifying idea of housing indicatedhow significantly her sense of the novel had shifted. It had begun asan abstract tale about the superior man struggling against the suffocatingmob, a thematic remnant from her obsessive reading of Nietzscheand her earliest stabs at fiction. The writing of Anthem, which for thefirst time featured a triumphant hero, marked an important move away