Study Guide

The Fountainhead Part 1, Chapter 14

By Ayn Rand

Part 1, Chapter 14

Cosmo-Slotnick Pictures decides to hold a contest to build a skyscraper in New York.
That is one bizarre contest, but in this novel the entire world seems infatuated with architecture, so we'll roll with it.
Keating is supposed to enter a design for Francon and Heller.
But of course, he has performance anxiety and has to get Roark to help him.
Roark says he wants no credit at all for this stupid building and Keating doesn't have to worry about blackmail.
Keating gets angry and the two argue. Or Keating argues and Roark does his stone-faced routine.
Roark is starting to run out of money and his commissions are drying up.
Cameron dies, and, on his deathbed, tells Roark to never give up.
Keating tells Katie they can get married after the competition is over, but Keating still sees Dominique and tries to kiss her. He's a dirbag like that.
Dominique gives him the cold shoulder and says she'll marry him if she ever wants to punish herself one day. Ouch.