Hank Rearden

• Chapter 2
  • “a figure with an expressionless face.”
  • “He never felt loneliness except when he was happy.”
  • Has tried for 10 years to create his own brand of steal
  • “he despised memories as a pointless indulgence.”
    • Does not like reminiscing
  • Decided on a goal when he was young and spent all his time travelling towards it
  • "As he touched it, he realized suddenly that he had thought of an abstraction called “his wife”—not of the woman to whom he was married. He felt a stab of regret, wishing he had not made the bracelet, then a wave of self-reproach for the regret.