![]() ![]() In the Depression, with building at a minimum, architects compete for the commission. Wynand, whose real estate empire exceeds his journalistic one, is planning a development - Stoneridge Homes. The marriage has helped Keating become the most successful architect in the country but has left Dominique utterly unaffected. Dominique has been married to Keating for almost two years. Wynand knows that he will not die now.Įllsworth Toohey, for his own reasons, brings Wynand and Dominique together. The thought of death brings him no fear the thought of life causes the fear of identifying his life's meaning. ![]() Wynand remembers the long, arduous struggle to start The New York Banner and to build its circulation he thinks of the men he has ruined, the fortune he has made, the power he has attained - and of the way he has used his genius to pander to the lowest tastes of the crowd. He remembers growing up in the harsh slums of Hell's Kitchen, being the smart, tough leader of a street gang and being entirely self-educated. Gail Wynand, contemplating suicide, looks back on his life, searching for a reason to live. ![]()
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