Favorite scenes in an Ayn Rand work

[Jim A. 0]

My favorite scene in any of Ayn Rand's novels (or her short works and plays) is the scene in the first part of The Fountainhead when Howard Roark meets his first employer (as an architect), Henry Cameron.

I love the scene not only because of the contrast between the way Cameron speaks to Roark versus the way Peter Keating's first employer speaks to him, but because of the profound respect Cameron shows toward Roark and his potential as an architect--and all this through the insults he hurls at him! The scene makes me aware of the fact that Cameron is the kind of mentor I would want in any field I may enter. I just love it!

What is your favorite scene in an Ayn Rand work? and why?

[Laars 0]

I haven't read much of Rand yet, I'm almost half through Atlas Shrugged and The Virtue. But I've certainly got my favourite scene, it's from Atlas.

The scene where the first train is being driven over the John Galt line. I loved that scene, the perfect finger against all the parasites, the ultimate symbol of justice, finally, after the increasing bad influences from the government. It felt like no one was able to destroy the production of the true rational minds. Justice was at last on the winning side. Atleast, it felt like that for a short time. But the feeling was awesome, pride, admiration, justification all in one. Loved it.

[Betsy Speicher 0]

My favorite scene in Ayn Rand's fiction is usually the last one I just read.

[Laars 0]

My favorite scene in Ayn Rand's fiction is usually the last one I just read.

Haha, you're right.

[L-C 0]

My favorite scene in Ayn Rand's fiction is usually the last one I just read.

They keep on comin', don't they?

I enjoyed Roark's meeting with Toohey, as well as Kent Lansing deciding to argue Roark's case with the design committee, and getting him the contract.

[Cadence 0]

Mine are the last paragraph of the Fountainhead and the last page of Atlas Shrugged.

[Cadence 0]

Mine are the last paragraph of the Fountainhead and the last page of Atlas Shrugged.

and, why? Because they sum up everything else perfectly.

[Jolie 0]

In Atlas Shrugged- when Hank Rearden asks Francisco about his "chasing of women". I think what Francisco replied to him was the best life lesson I got from Ayn Rand.

Also from Atlas Shrugged, right after Dagny speaks on the radio about the romance between her and Hank, and he tells her "The worst of it is over, for both of us"; I have a fascination for how they speak to each other in that scene- and then, when she tells him about Galt... well, all I can say is that I have a huge, huge admiration for how he takes it. It's something I can relate to on a very personal level.

From The Fountainhead- When Dominique and Roark get back together, at Monadnock Valley.

[Paul's Here 0]

My favorite scene is the opening scene of Part 4 in The Fountainhead.

[B. Royce 0]

My favorite scene from Atlas is when Dagny sits in the office of the John Galt Line and she sees the shadow of a man approach, retreat, approach, pause, then retreat again. Dramatic mystery, hopeful expectation, possible danger, are all depicted beautifully; plus, the reader has, at that point, the information to guess that it might be John Galt.

My favorite scene from The Fountainhead is the opening page, and in the movie it is the final scene, with Dominique rising up along the side of Roark's new skyscraper with him standing proudly there with his hands on his hips---the master builder.

[realitycheck44 0]

While there are a number of scenes that I love, there is one that stand out in my mind from Atlas Shrugged. First is the scenes of Francisco and Dagny's childhood together. It was such a perfect childhood! It reminded me of my brother and me - always inventing new ways to have fun outside.

Okay, I just started thinking about it and five or six other scenes that I love popped into my head, so I'm going to stop it with just that one. I don't know that I would call it my favorite, but it is a great part of the book.

[JohnRgt 0]

"My judgement."

[Henrik Unné 0]

My very top favorite passage from Ayn Rand´s fiction is the aphorism which Ayn Rand has Hank Rearden coin in Atlas Shrugged. Hank Rearden, in one scene, looks at Lillian, and suddenly he becomes aware of - "the enormity of the smallness". That aphorism has stuck in my mind - because I think that it applies to *so many* men. As Ayn Rand pointed out in another memorable passage, evil is not big and monstrous. It is - "many and smutty and small".

Few men are moral monsters. But *many* men are like lice.

[rtg24 0]

Anything involving Midas Mulligan. From the description of his office in the Gulch to his refusal to make loss-making loans. Awesome guy.

[Henrik Unné 0]

Hank Rearden´s and Dagny Taggart´s ride on the first run of the John Galt Line, is of course one of my favorites. I think that scene is among everyone´s favorites. It is very moving (sorry, I didn´t intend to make a bad pun, I meant that literally - the scene is so dramatic and engaging).