Howard Roark Timeline and Summary

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Howard Roark Timeline and Summary

  • Roark gets expelled from architecture school just before graduation.
  • He goes to work for Henry Cameron.
  • Roark opens his own office, but business isn't booming.
  • He goes to Connecticut to work in a quarry in order to make ends meet.
  • In Connecticut he meets and falls for Dominique Francon.
  • Roark then scores a sweet project with Austen Heller, and he goes back to work.
  • He and Dominique meet up again and continue their affair.
  • Ellsworth Toohey sets Roark up to fail by getting him a job building the Stoddard Temple.
  • Roark gets sued for breach of contract over his odd design and has to go to trial.
  • His frenemy, Peter Keating, and his secret girlfriend, Dominique, testify against him.
  • Roark loses the suit.
  • Dominique marries Keating and later Gail Wynand, leaving Roark alone.
  • Roark continues to find work all around the country.
  • Gail Wynand hires him to build his dream house and Roark becomes his friend.
  • Roark helps Keating design the Cortlandt Housing Project, secretly.
  • But the government and other assorted morons ruin Roark's design.
  • So Roark blows that building up.
  • Roark goes to trial again, but this time he's acquitted.
  • Meanwhile he and Dominique hook up for good and they later get married.
  • At the end Roark is working on a skyscraper for Gail Wynand and seems happy.