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The Fountainhead Study Guide

by Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead study guide contains a biography of Ayn Rand, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

At the outset of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Howard Roark and Peter Keating depart from the Stanton Institute of Technology in very different ways. Howard Roark is expelled for his refusal to complete exercises in classical design. He goes to New York to seek a position with the recently eminent but now reviled modernist designer Henry Cameron. Peter Stanton is the valedictorian of his class, and he turns down a scholarship to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris to take up a lucrative position with Guy Francon, the darling of the design world. Peter Keating immediately takes to the competitive and underhanded world that architecture has become. He works his way up through the ranks, becoming ever closer to Guy Francon. Howard Roark's…

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• The Fountainhead Summary
• About The Fountainhead
• Character List
• Glossary of Terms
• Major Themes
• Summary and Analysis of Part I, Chapters 1-5
• Summary and Analysis of Part I, Chapters 6-10
• Summary and Analysis of Part I, Chapters 11-15
• Summary and Analysis of Part II, Chapters 1-5
• Summary and Analysis of Part II, Chapters 6-10
• Summary and Analysis of Part II, Chapters 11-15
• Summary and Analysis of Part III, Chapters 1-9
• Summary and Analysis of Part IV, Chapters 1-5
• Summary and Analysis of Part IV, Chapters 6-10
• Summary and Analysis of Part IV, Chapters 11-20
• Ayn Rand and Communism
• Related Links on The Fountainhead
• Suggested Essay Questions
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 1
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 2
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 3
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 4
• Author of ClassicNote and Sources

• The Fountainhead: Major Themes
• The Fountainhead: Essays
• The Fountainhead: Questions
• The Fountainhead: Purchase the Novel and Related Material
• Ayn Rand: Biography