Editing The Fountainhead (section)

===Dominique Francon===
[[File:Patricia Neal in The Fountainhead trailer.JPG|thumb|right|alt=Portrait photo of Patricia Neal|[[Patricia Neal]] played Dominique Francon in the film adaptation.]]
Dominique Francon is the heroine of ''The Fountainhead'', described by Rand as "the woman for a man like Howard Roark".<ref>{{harvnb|Rand|1997|p=89}}</ref> Rand described Dominique as similar to herself "in a bad mood".<ref name="Gladstein52">{{harvnb|Gladstein|1999|p=52}}</ref> For most of the novel, the character operates from a mistaken belief that a corrupt world will destroy the things she values.<ref>Boeckmann, Tore. "What Might Be and Ought to Be: Aristotle's ''Poetics'' and ''The Fountainhead''". In {{harvnb|Mayhew|2006|pp=158–159}}</ref> Believing that the values she admires cannot survive in the real world, she chooses to turn away from them so that the world cannot harm her. Only at the end of the novel does she accept that she can be happy and survive.<ref name="Gladstein52"/><ref>{{harvnb|Branden|1986|p=106}}</ref><ref>Boeckmann, Tore. "Rand's Literary Romanticism". In {{harvnb|Gotthelf|Salmieri|2016|pp=440–441}}</ref>