Was Rand Selfish

not care about what happens to himself, Rand’s execution of this trait is very unrealistic. Roark says “I don’t intend to build in order to serve or help anyone. I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”(26) like he is not going to put any effort into what he wants and let what happens happen. Rand probably intended this to sound like some great self-righteous proclamation but it is simply unrealistic. Realistically if Roark was truly being selfish then he would have realized, as Peter had, that the only way to be successful in his line of work was to cater to the consumers. Producers cannot succeed in a competitive market if the consumers do not want what they are offering. This is how capitalism works. Rand was very vocal about her love the capitalist system but based on the way she wrote Roark, her ideal man, and his inability to thrive in a competitive market, she did not understand how it really worked. Roark may have been a good role model in they way that he holds on to his beliefs, but he and Rand had the same problem of holding on a little too tight. She was so caustic in interviews and other …show more content…
These decisions were not delineations of selfishness, he was only being illogical. No one acting rationally that was trying to choose an architect to hire would decide on one that’s policy is that he is going to do whatever he wants and they have little to no say in the design. On the other side of the equation no rational architect would think that his customers would come to him saying that he is so innovative and modern that they are going to let him at it with no direction, especially when there almost no examples of his finished work like in Roark’s case. Putting aside Rand’s inaccurate portrayal of human nature, one could rightfully call Roark self-absorbed but there is no way to argue that he is