Goals And Determination In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

Goals and Determination
Who or what would get in the way of one completing one’s goals? Who would decide that one’s dreams are not important enough to overcome their own? When does one become not important enough to have one’s goals dominated by another’s? Ayn Rand’s novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’ shows that when one is not deterred by outside forces one may achieve anything through Dagny Taggart and her determination to save the Rio Norte Line. On page fifty-five of the book, it is told to reader that Dagny Taggart when she was young stated that she was the one who end up running the Taggart Transcontinental instead of her brother. This proves that even though she was a young girl, she knew that she had what it took to run the railroad. On page

Even though it is evident that she strived as hard as she could to save the line. She even went so far as to make her own company who then took over the completion of the Rio Norte Line which was written on pages 183 and 184 when she took over the line and told James that she would either succeed alone or fail alone. The public was so against the idea that the railroad would be made out of Rearden Metal and that it would be going over the new bridge made also out of Rearden Metal. That did not stop Dagny Taggart however, and she rode in the front of the train alongside Hank Rearden and watched as the people became more comfortable and more familiar with the Metal track and began to trust that Rearden Metal would not collapse. However, she handed over the line back to the Company after making it a success and that ended up choking the entire train system until it was no longer who the best train was or how often they were around. As far into the book as that goes, she had foiled her brother at every turn that he and his buddies had come up