Dominique Francon Appear To Keating Research Paper
2. How does Dominique Francon appear to Keating? To Keating, Dominique Francon looked extremely beautiful, seeing her as a true beauty. Additionally, Keating described her as “making the reality seem vulgar.” Dominique was very pretty and Keating was going to see her in Guy Francon’s office, taking his works in pretext. However, he realizes that she was a cruel woman when he listened to her laughing at her father’s distress. Still, Keating wanted to see Dominique in the future.
3. What is unsatisfying about Roark’s position with John Erik Snyte? Roark learned that Snyte merges different styles of architecture and incorporates them into a single building. Only parts of Roark’s work could be seen, instead of the whole work. Roark always …show more content…
hated incorporating old styles of architecture into modern ones; he always believed that architecture should be unique, including its soul. However, working under Snyte was satisfying compared to working for others (excluding Cameron); at least Roark was allowed to express and draw as he wanted.
Chapter 10
Vocabulary
brocade – silk fabric with raised design consummate – ultimate decadent – lush, opulent decadent – with an unnecessary richness grafter – swindler irresilient – without the stamina to overcome adversity rancorous – with conflict and hostility
1. How does Dominique justify the negative review she gave a building designed by her father’s firm in her newspaper column in the Banner? Dominique justifies that Keating was one of the rare “victim of one of my rare attacks of honesty,” even though she actually wanted to criticize Francon and Heyer as a whole. This was Dominique’s attempt for composing Keating, who might have been hurt by reading her extreme criticism. Adding that Dominique was tired of writing about home decorations on the paper, she says that no readers would pay attention to what she would write on the column. Since she thinks that what she does is not very important, she tells Keating as no one would care about his designs.
2. Why does Snyte fire Roark? The employees of Snyte were trained not to be intruded upon Snyte’s meeting with a client. However, when Heller, Snyte’s client, criticized the final sketch of the drawing for being incomplete, Roark suddenly took the pencil and intruded upon the meeting in order to fix the “incomplete” drawing that was edited by Snyte but almost completely drawn by Roark. Here, Roark did not like the fact that Snyte did not accept his complete drawing and Snyte simply merged his drawings to Roark’s finished drawing. Watching Roark going crazy, editing the final draft into his original draft, Snyte saw this as an intrusion of manner between the architect and the client, and also to his edits and drawings. Therefore, Snyte fired Roark.
3. How does Guy Francon react when Peter Keating asks to meet Dominique?
Before Keating and Francon saw Dominique, Francon told him that Keating had asked for his meeting with Dominique, and he shall not blame him afterward. Francon had always disliked seeing his daughter or letting any of his employees seeing her since she would manipulate or drop his prestige in her own ways, such as writing a criticizing article about his architectures. However, when seeing Dominique, Francon reacted as if she was a precious daughter in front of Keating.
Chapter 11
Vocabulary
impervious – immune sanction – act of condoning or approving
1. What advice does Roark’s construction friend, Mike, give him when he sees that Roark is so excited about the construction of his first building, the Heller house? In a friendly way, Mike says that Roark should concentrate on his work since he knew that Roark has never had a chance to become an architect by himself. Additionally, Mike says Roark should lead the workers and not “clog up the works.” Mike wanted Roark to come more often and successfully finish the construction.
2. How do the extinguished members of the Architect’s Guild of America view Roark’s creation of the Heller house? Simply saying, the extinguished member see Roark’s creation as a piece of junk. Unable to look through Roark’s intentions of building the Heller house, they did not understand why the building was erected. Especially those who had Roark as their draftsmen, intensely criticized Roark’s creation. For example, Snyte said his creation will “drive clients away,” and Francon said, “those modernistic stunts never last more than a season.” They showed intense hatred and belittled at the house as if it reminded them of Henry Cameron. 3. Why is it so important to Keating to find Roark shaken and uncertain when he first opens his own office? Since Keating always felt resentment and some dislike towards Roark, he would find satisfaction for the first time from seeing Roark was shaken and uncertain. From Keating’s perspective, Roark has always been certain about his choices and believed that he was always correct. Now seeing him uncertain, Keating would feel that he has become very successful in the society, since he saw people, including Roark, becoming unsuccessful. Roark was the only person who Keating has not conquered completely yet, and now seeing him uncertain, he felt superiority over him, and anybody else.
Chapter 12
Vocabulary aviatrix – female aviator (archaic) debutantes – young women making formal entry into society dolefully – sorrowfully guttersnipe – insult referring to low social class organdy – a stiff, sheer fabric of cotton, silk, or muslin privation – denial of appetite, particularly of food
1. What happens when the editor of the paper for which Dominique works asks her to begin writing more pieces on the issues of women’s welfare in New York? Dominique rejects the editor at once. Dominique emphasizes that she is not seeking after her goal, and she will do whatever she wanted to do by her instincts. Explaining why she did not want to take the job, Dominique stated her own definition of freedom and gave Scarret the reason of not doing things that she wanted. Dominique did not want to depend on anyone and wanted to be herself.
2. Why does Katie come unexpectedly to see Keating? Katie suddenly felt fear from the fact that she might be afraid of Uncle Ellsworth. Katie did not do anything unusual; all she did was work for her uncle, which she thought was honorable, helping people who appreciate Ellsworth to learn. Suddenly, Katie got something that made her deaf and blind, as if she was going to die. She needed someone to rely on, who was Peter.
3. Explain Dominique’s unusual power over her boss, Alvah Scarret. Dominique overwhelms Scarret with her individualism, possibly objectivism.
Since Dominique has been successful with the meeting with social workers, Scarret wanted Dominique to work with women’s welfare. However, Dominique refuses Scarret, who constantly persuaded Dominique to do so. Dominique says, with her definition of freedom, which is to ask, expect, and depend on nothing, that it would be terrible to take the job she wanted. Having her favorite job would mean that it will defy her own definition of freedom; this made Scarret say nothing about so. Scarret, who wanted Dominique (who chased after nothing) to be successful, got overwhelmed by Dominique’s unusual power since he thought no one would refuse the chance to become successful. 4. What is Dominique’s definition of freedom? Dominique’s definition of freedom is “to ask nothing, to expect nothing, and to depend on nothing.” To have freedom is to be an independent self who is isolated to surroundings and other opinions, and to be an individual who is truly free to express his/her own idea. This is very similar to Roark’s objectivism in architecture that pursues the originality and the purpose of the structure.
5. Evaluate the following statement by Peter’s mother. Is it in agreement with objectivist principles? Why or why not? “Your life doesn’t belong to you, Peter, if you’re really aiming high. You can’t allow yourself to indulge every whim, as ordinary can, because with them it doesn’t matter …show more content…
anyway.” The statement of Peter’s mother is definitely not in agreement with objectivist principles. Peter’s mother always assumes that Peter will become a great, and the best architect in the United States, and tells him that his life is not his own as long as if he is aiming high. The objectivist principles suggest that a person’s life belongs to oneself and always contains its purpose. Peter’s mother’s statement that Peter should not care about other ordinaries for his goal for the best may be in agreement with objectivist principles, but by obeying her words, he will be disobeying objectivist principle, which is to be true self and have own genuine opinions.
Chapter 13
Vocabulary fiend – devil or demon zealot – filled with zeal
1. What best characterizes the basic theme of Chapter 13? Chapter 13’s basic theme represents persistence and patience. After Howard’s first house, the Heller house, Howard gets few commissions and builds more of his houses. However, all of them carried unfavorable consequences; no one was able to appreciate Howard’s architectural views. Famous architects belittled at him, trying to discourage Roark. Still, Howard did not mind whether the public criticized him or not--all it mattered to him was the quality of the building. This shows Howard’s persistence and patience, which the author tried to focus on.
Chapter 14
Vocabulary insolent – rude and disrespectful mollify – to sooth or appease petulantly – peevish, sad
1.
What motive could Roark possibly have for spending entire night redoing Keating’s entry in the Cosmo-Slotnik competition? Instead of emphasizing that Cosmo-Slotnik event is a competition that is awarded grand prize, describing that the event welcomes any architects and accepts any novel creation will attract Roark a lot. Also, if Cameron wanted Roark to join the competition, Roark would have joined it.
2. Why does Keating ask Dominique to marry him when he is already bequeathed to Katie? Keating was under pressure of his mother again; Keating still trusted his mother for his own best future, and he wanted the best for anything. Since Keating was always sensitive to the public, marrying to Dominique will look good to it, including his mother. Keating did not want to regret and drop his popularity by marrying unpopular Katie; “he could not let it stand between him and his future.” Also, by marrying Dominique, Keating thought his relation with Guy Francon will improve through “help” Guy and Dominique get together well.
Chapter 15
Vocabulary lucidity – clarity of thought
1. What does Keating attempt to do with Lucius
Heyer? Keating tries to put Heyer down from the partnership with Francon, who had lots of faith in Keating. Knowing that Francon did not like Heyer as his partner, Keating visited and threatened Heyer to retire, by telling him that his secret, which Heyer received excess money from a cheap building, will be revealed. Keating wanted Heyer to retire in case he did not win the Cosmo-Slotnik competition; Francon would have no choice but to take Keating as a partner if Heyer did so. In danger of receiving a second stroke, Heyer got shocked by Keating’s words, and received a shock, eventually leading to his death. Keating successfully became Francon’s partner, with the help of his winning in Cosmo-Slotnik competition.
2. Why does Keating become so frustrated with Roark? Keating visited Roark, believing that he overcame Roark’s presence and his human nature. Keating wanted to prove that he is superior over Roark when he sees Roark. However, Keating’s attempt failed. When Keating tried to give Roark part of the prize money to Roark, Roark refused to receive it in order to “bribe” Keating to not reveal the fact that Roark’s creation was part of Keating’s drawings. Keating saw this as Roark’s pretentiousness and was angry by the fact that Roark still thought he is “the best” at Keating’s presence.
3. What is unsatisfying about Roark’s position with John Erik Snyte? Roark learned that Snyte merges different styles of architecture and incorporates them into a single building. Only parts of Roark’s work could be seen, instead of the whole work. Roark always …show more content…
hated incorporating old styles of architecture into modern ones; he always believed that architecture should be unique, including its soul. However, working under Snyte was satisfying compared to working for others (excluding Cameron); at least Roark was allowed to express and draw as he wanted.
Chapter 10
Vocabulary
brocade – silk fabric with raised design consummate – ultimate decadent – lush, opulent decadent – with an unnecessary richness grafter – swindler irresilient – without the stamina to overcome adversity rancorous – with conflict and hostility
1. How does Dominique justify the negative review she gave a building designed by her father’s firm in her newspaper column in the Banner? Dominique justifies that Keating was one of the rare “victim of one of my rare attacks of honesty,” even though she actually wanted to criticize Francon and Heyer as a whole. This was Dominique’s attempt for composing Keating, who might have been hurt by reading her extreme criticism. Adding that Dominique was tired of writing about home decorations on the paper, she says that no readers would pay attention to what she would write on the column. Since she thinks that what she does is not very important, she tells Keating as no one would care about his designs.
2. Why does Snyte fire Roark? The employees of Snyte were trained not to be intruded upon Snyte’s meeting with a client. However, when Heller, Snyte’s client, criticized the final sketch of the drawing for being incomplete, Roark suddenly took the pencil and intruded upon the meeting in order to fix the “incomplete” drawing that was edited by Snyte but almost completely drawn by Roark. Here, Roark did not like the fact that Snyte did not accept his complete drawing and Snyte simply merged his drawings to Roark’s finished drawing. Watching Roark going crazy, editing the final draft into his original draft, Snyte saw this as an intrusion of manner between the architect and the client, and also to his edits and drawings. Therefore, Snyte fired Roark.
3. How does Guy Francon react when Peter Keating asks to meet Dominique?
Before Keating and Francon saw Dominique, Francon told him that Keating had asked for his meeting with Dominique, and he shall not blame him afterward. Francon had always disliked seeing his daughter or letting any of his employees seeing her since she would manipulate or drop his prestige in her own ways, such as writing a criticizing article about his architectures. However, when seeing Dominique, Francon reacted as if she was a precious daughter in front of Keating.
Chapter 11
Vocabulary
impervious – immune sanction – act of condoning or approving
1. What advice does Roark’s construction friend, Mike, give him when he sees that Roark is so excited about the construction of his first building, the Heller house? In a friendly way, Mike says that Roark should concentrate on his work since he knew that Roark has never had a chance to become an architect by himself. Additionally, Mike says Roark should lead the workers and not “clog up the works.” Mike wanted Roark to come more often and successfully finish the construction.
2. How do the extinguished members of the Architect’s Guild of America view Roark’s creation of the Heller house? Simply saying, the extinguished member see Roark’s creation as a piece of junk. Unable to look through Roark’s intentions of building the Heller house, they did not understand why the building was erected. Especially those who had Roark as their draftsmen, intensely criticized Roark’s creation. For example, Snyte said his creation will “drive clients away,” and Francon said, “those modernistic stunts never last more than a season.” They showed intense hatred and belittled at the house as if it reminded them of Henry Cameron. 3. Why is it so important to Keating to find Roark shaken and uncertain when he first opens his own office? Since Keating always felt resentment and some dislike towards Roark, he would find satisfaction for the first time from seeing Roark was shaken and uncertain. From Keating’s perspective, Roark has always been certain about his choices and believed that he was always correct. Now seeing him uncertain, Keating would feel that he has become very successful in the society, since he saw people, including Roark, becoming unsuccessful. Roark was the only person who Keating has not conquered completely yet, and now seeing him uncertain, he felt superiority over him, and anybody else.
Chapter 12
Vocabulary aviatrix – female aviator (archaic) debutantes – young women making formal entry into society dolefully – sorrowfully guttersnipe – insult referring to low social class organdy – a stiff, sheer fabric of cotton, silk, or muslin privation – denial of appetite, particularly of food
1. What happens when the editor of the paper for which Dominique works asks her to begin writing more pieces on the issues of women’s welfare in New York? Dominique rejects the editor at once. Dominique emphasizes that she is not seeking after her goal, and she will do whatever she wanted to do by her instincts. Explaining why she did not want to take the job, Dominique stated her own definition of freedom and gave Scarret the reason of not doing things that she wanted. Dominique did not want to depend on anyone and wanted to be herself.
2. Why does Katie come unexpectedly to see Keating? Katie suddenly felt fear from the fact that she might be afraid of Uncle Ellsworth. Katie did not do anything unusual; all she did was work for her uncle, which she thought was honorable, helping people who appreciate Ellsworth to learn. Suddenly, Katie got something that made her deaf and blind, as if she was going to die. She needed someone to rely on, who was Peter.
3. Explain Dominique’s unusual power over her boss, Alvah Scarret. Dominique overwhelms Scarret with her individualism, possibly objectivism.
Since Dominique has been successful with the meeting with social workers, Scarret wanted Dominique to work with women’s welfare. However, Dominique refuses Scarret, who constantly persuaded Dominique to do so. Dominique says, with her definition of freedom, which is to ask, expect, and depend on nothing, that it would be terrible to take the job she wanted. Having her favorite job would mean that it will defy her own definition of freedom; this made Scarret say nothing about so. Scarret, who wanted Dominique (who chased after nothing) to be successful, got overwhelmed by Dominique’s unusual power since he thought no one would refuse the chance to become successful. 4. What is Dominique’s definition of freedom? Dominique’s definition of freedom is “to ask nothing, to expect nothing, and to depend on nothing.” To have freedom is to be an independent self who is isolated to surroundings and other opinions, and to be an individual who is truly free to express his/her own idea. This is very similar to Roark’s objectivism in architecture that pursues the originality and the purpose of the structure.
5. Evaluate the following statement by Peter’s mother. Is it in agreement with objectivist principles? Why or why not? “Your life doesn’t belong to you, Peter, if you’re really aiming high. You can’t allow yourself to indulge every whim, as ordinary can, because with them it doesn’t matter …show more content…
anyway.” The statement of Peter’s mother is definitely not in agreement with objectivist principles. Peter’s mother always assumes that Peter will become a great, and the best architect in the United States, and tells him that his life is not his own as long as if he is aiming high. The objectivist principles suggest that a person’s life belongs to oneself and always contains its purpose. Peter’s mother’s statement that Peter should not care about other ordinaries for his goal for the best may be in agreement with objectivist principles, but by obeying her words, he will be disobeying objectivist principle, which is to be true self and have own genuine opinions.
Chapter 13
Vocabulary fiend – devil or demon zealot – filled with zeal
1. What best characterizes the basic theme of Chapter 13? Chapter 13’s basic theme represents persistence and patience. After Howard’s first house, the Heller house, Howard gets few commissions and builds more of his houses. However, all of them carried unfavorable consequences; no one was able to appreciate Howard’s architectural views. Famous architects belittled at him, trying to discourage Roark. Still, Howard did not mind whether the public criticized him or not--all it mattered to him was the quality of the building. This shows Howard’s persistence and patience, which the author tried to focus on.
Chapter 14
Vocabulary insolent – rude and disrespectful mollify – to sooth or appease petulantly – peevish, sad
1.
What motive could Roark possibly have for spending entire night redoing Keating’s entry in the Cosmo-Slotnik competition? Instead of emphasizing that Cosmo-Slotnik event is a competition that is awarded grand prize, describing that the event welcomes any architects and accepts any novel creation will attract Roark a lot. Also, if Cameron wanted Roark to join the competition, Roark would have joined it.
2. Why does Keating ask Dominique to marry him when he is already bequeathed to Katie? Keating was under pressure of his mother again; Keating still trusted his mother for his own best future, and he wanted the best for anything. Since Keating was always sensitive to the public, marrying to Dominique will look good to it, including his mother. Keating did not want to regret and drop his popularity by marrying unpopular Katie; “he could not let it stand between him and his future.” Also, by marrying Dominique, Keating thought his relation with Guy Francon will improve through “help” Guy and Dominique get together well.
Chapter 15
Vocabulary lucidity – clarity of thought
1. What does Keating attempt to do with Lucius
Heyer? Keating tries to put Heyer down from the partnership with Francon, who had lots of faith in Keating. Knowing that Francon did not like Heyer as his partner, Keating visited and threatened Heyer to retire, by telling him that his secret, which Heyer received excess money from a cheap building, will be revealed. Keating wanted Heyer to retire in case he did not win the Cosmo-Slotnik competition; Francon would have no choice but to take Keating as a partner if Heyer did so. In danger of receiving a second stroke, Heyer got shocked by Keating’s words, and received a shock, eventually leading to his death. Keating successfully became Francon’s partner, with the help of his winning in Cosmo-Slotnik competition.
2. Why does Keating become so frustrated with Roark? Keating visited Roark, believing that he overcame Roark’s presence and his human nature. Keating wanted to prove that he is superior over Roark when he sees Roark. However, Keating’s attempt failed. When Keating tried to give Roark part of the prize money to Roark, Roark refused to receive it in order to “bribe” Keating to not reveal the fact that Roark’s creation was part of Keating’s drawings. Keating saw this as Roark’s pretentiousness and was angry by the fact that Roark still thought he is “the best” at Keating’s presence.