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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com84THE EDUCATION OF AYN RAND, 1905–1943of selfishness and completed the ethical revolution at the heart of TheFountainhead.Along with creativity Roark’s speech also celebrates reason, anothertheme of dawning importance to Rand. Here again was the influenceof Paterson, who constantly ranted and raved about the importance ofreason and the dangers of irrationality. The “Manifesto” did not mentionrationality or the concept of reason, but Roark’s speech lauds “thereasoning mind” and “the process of reason.” At some points Roark distinguishesbetween thinking and creativity, at other times he collapsesthe terms, telling his audience, “The code of the creator is built uponthe needs of the reasoning mind which allows man to survive” (681). Hereturns always to the basic point that individual rights must be valuedabove collective needs.Swayed by Roark’s argument, the jury promptly votes unanimouslyto acquit. The jury proved critical, helping Rand democratize hervision and reaffirm the basic wisdom of the free-thinking, independentAmerican. Although none of the jurors are the history-making creatorthat Roark represents, Rand makes clear that they can share in his glorysimply by understanding and affirming the principle of individualism.After the trial scene Rand moved quickly to wrap up the loose endsof her story. In the pages preceding the trial she had dwelled at somelength on the ordeal of Gail Wynand. Once a cocky and feared mogul,Wynand is humbled to discover that he cannot effectively defend Roarkwith his tabloids. Roark’s destruction of Cortland has aroused publicfury against him, and readers begin abandoning Wynand’s publicationswhen he takes Roark’s side. Wynand has long believed he alone createspublic opinion, but now he sees it is the public who owns him. Sellingout his deepest values, he salvages his flagship newspaper, The Banner,by reversing course and attacking Roark. His fate is the most poignantin the book, for unlike Toohey and Keating, Wynand is “the man whocould have been.” In the novel’s closing scenes Wynand shamefullyrebuffs overtures from Roark, even as he commissions him to designand build a landmark building. Alone and desolate as the story ends,Wynand learns that his quest for power has brought him nothing inreturn.Rand capped off her giant manuscript with a cinematic happy ending.Dominique, by now Mrs. Howard Roark, arrives at the construction