The narrator’s description of the garden is a representation of mankind. Chance’s garden and his care for it is, in my interpretation, God or someone who cares for us. Helping us grow, and strive to the best we can be. When we are sick they give us medicine when we are in pain they heal us, and we are down they encourage us, just like chance did this with the plants. From the beginning to end he cared from the garden just like God or our parents or loved ones do. When it comes to Rand’s interpretation of Chance’s garden philosophy he rather than applying it to the world or even simply as instructions to gardening, he applied it to his business and as a way to run it. His interpretation of the philosophy could only apply to a businessman or
