Fountainhead the Second Time

Just finished The Fountainhead. I think I understood it better this time than I did the last time I read it.

I don't know if I realized last time why Wynand crumpled in the end. This time I think I do realize, and that is, his product, his work, produced a 'thing,' the Banner, that could never do what he wanted. As soon as he tried to exert his will over it, it began to crumble. Forces moved in to destroy it.

There is a parallel to the act that Roark committed, he destroyed a work that did not conform to his will, the Cortlandt projects. And he was right in doing so.

Wynand should have closed his paper in New York, but he could not do so. He caved to the board. I would call it redeeming however that the Banner never carried another installment of 'One Small Voice.'