Chapter Seven

Chapter Seven was filled with notable moments. After Keating learns of Cameron’s retirement he goes to Roark to offer him a job. This must be because Keating fears Roark and once he was no longer working for Cameron he was in danger of becoming something great and worst of all better than Keating. As long as Roark was working for Francon & Meyer, Keating feels in control of his adversaries destiny. The notable part came when it showed Roark becoming angry for the first time. He was working on drawing and hated that he was in a position to work on what he considered lesser buildings. His anger seemed justified knowing his style of thought but still surprising because it was the first time in the story that he showed real human emotion. I found him to be closer to being like Cameron than he had been before.

Another part I found interesting was that he turned down Keating to go for a drink after Keating had offered him the job but later on he meets a construction worker that offers him a drink and he agrees. This construction worker turns out to be similar to Roark in the way that he has no interest in the week minded no matter what there status is in society. There is a great statement about Mike (the construction worker) in the final part of chapter seven. “His view of the world was simple: there were the able and the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.”