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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com86THE EDUCATION OF AYN RAND, 1905–1943slimmed the manuscript and pruned complexity from Roark’s character,allowing him to stand out more sharply as an idealized figure.Even so, Roark’s relations with women remained one of the mosttroubling parts of the book. Often, as Rand struggled to make concretewhat she intended by the heroic, she described characters with icy emotionallives and distant, destructive relationships. Although their passionsfor each other are all-consuming, in another sense the novel’scharacters never truly relate to one another. Friends find their greatestmoments of connection in silence, because it seems that in silence theytruly understand one another. Lovers don’t hold hands, they hold wrists.And then there is the infamous rape scene.As in Night of January 16th the grand passion of The Fountainheadbegins in violence. The first encounters between Dominique and Roarkare charged with sexual tension. The two meet when Roark is working inher father’s quarry. Dominique requests that he be sent to repair a marblefireplace she has deliberately scratched. Seeing through her ruse, Roarksmashes the marble, to Dominique’s shocked delight, and then sendsanother man to set the replacement. Encountering him again while onhorseback, Dominique slashes Roark across the face with a riding crop. Hereturns a few nights later to finish what both have started, slipping throughher bedroom window. Rand wrote the scene to emphasize that even as sheresisted, Dominique welcomed Roark’s advances. Yet it remained a brutalportrayal of conquest, an episode that left Dominique bruised, battered,and wanting more. Rand herself offered conflicting explanations for thesadomasochistic scene. It wasn’t real rape, she insisted to a fan, then calledit “rape by engraved invitation.” 34 Certainly Rand perceived the encounteras an erotic climax for both characters. Risqué for its time, the rapebecame one of the most popular and controversial parts of the book. 35The rape scene was a remnant of Rand’s first intellectual preoccupations.In its basic structure The Fountainhead resembles many of Rand’searly works. Its hero is a principled criminal with a complicated love life,and the plot culminates in a trial that affords the airing of philosophicalviews. Rand did what she could to improve the characterization ofRoark, sharpening and defining his sense of individualism as the novelprogressed. 36 But with a deadline looming, structural changes wereimpossible. The Fountainhead is ultimately a hybrid work that caughtRand in transition from one set of intellectual interests to another.