“Main questions” and “Subordinate questions”

These notes are additional work by Rand to decide on the sequence of events in Part II. Although undated, the content here is similar to her second detailed outline for Part II from March 1940 (see this item). By this time, she had already abandoned the idea of a lawsuit between Roark and Dominique (see the previous item). Instead, she considered events surrounding the Aquitania Hotel construction and its halting (the “Unfinished Symphony”) as the reason that would lead Dominique to leave Roark and marry Keating.

Other points of interest include Rand noting that it was preferable for there to be a direct connection with Wynand when Dominique is fired from The Banner, and she seems to have originally thought about including a greater amount of connection and interaction between the characters of Ellsworth Toohey and Austin Heller.