Chapter plan [Part IV]

This is a late revision that Rand made of the Part IV outline, dated just a few months prior to her completion of the whole novel.

In this outline, we see that (just as in Part II) Rand chose to streamline the events of Part IV, removing various elements of her original 1938 plan for how the novel would end. The discarded events, however dramatic, did not serve the plot. With that consideration guiding her, she made the changes seen in this outline, which in turn reflect what she actually wrote for the novel’s ending.