Or does it show what happens when you hold onto the "corpse" of capitalism that has been bled dry?
Eddie was too good. He never let go . My first read through I feared Dagney wouldn't let go either. She didn't until the bridge died.
>> Or does it show what happens when you hold onto the “corpse” of capitalism that has been bled dry? Eddie was too good. He never let go . My first read through I feared Dagney wouldn’t let go either. She didn’t until the bridge died. <<
He was never contacted, was he? It wasn’t that he never would let go. Don’t try to read into it some grand purpose for Eddie into Rand; she wrote seductively brilliant prose, but throughout the book she never considered the world through Eddie’s eyes. But you are right: Eddie was TOO good to make it to Rand’s Rousseau village. What does that say about the internal consistency of Rand’s values?
That is the one thing that has always bothered me about the book - Eddie was never invited to Galt’s Gulch even though he was held the same values and was equally as competent as Owen Kellogg.