Posted by The Radical Trader on July 30, 19103 at 06:04:22:

In Reply to: The ending of Atlas Shrugged posted by John on December 22, 19100 at 17:44:02:

I think that Eddie Willers was the "other half" of Dagny, specifically the side that had to die, but let me explain that. You see, it is clear the Dagny is torn between saving her railroad and leaving the world, ending the and servitude that her parasites place on her. In Dagny, we see both sides: the want to be free of the looters and moochers, and the want to save her railroad. The latter comes from the basic flaw in her view (I think Akston tells her that it is the last premise that she has to check). This falw is simple: she still thinks that others want life. Of course, this is not true. Galt knows it, and Dagny learns it. Eddie, however, cannot grasp the meaning of that, he wont believe that people don't want life, so there is no way that he can abandon the railroad. It is not that he wans't "Ubermensch", it was that he was still a simple, middle-of-the-road guy with the same naive view that Dagny once had. I think that it cost him his life, as if he decided to live by their system, only death could result.

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