Partial outline of chapters [Part II]

This is Rand’s final outline for Part II, which is dated December 1941, only a year before she finished writing. Here we see the events of this part as they appear in the novel. Dominique’s involvement in the Aquitania Hotel (the “Unfinished Symphony”) from the previous outline is gone. Instead of issues surrounding that project, it is Roark’s loss in the Stoddard Temple lawsuit that pushes Dominique to marry Keating.

This is an example of how Rand allowed the plot to drive her choices about what would happen in the novel; this streamlined set of events for the second part flowed logically and moved the plot forward the way Rand wanted.