Notes on Wynand after betrayal

This list of notes covers the scene of Gail Wynand’s night of wandering after his betrayal of Roark, when he bowed to the pressure to stop supporting Roark through his newspapers. Please note that Rand edited this list extensively on the page, rearranging the different parts into their final order. Those details are not captured in the transcript provided here, but can be seen by examining the original page.

In a response to a fan in 1946, Rand said that “the two best passages of writing in The Fountainhead” were the beginning of Part IV and “Wynand’s walk through the streets” (see Letters of Ayn Rand, #257). On this page, we see her efforts to make it so.