People can spend their entire lives searching for the thing they desire most... love. But some people choose to avoid it, why? The Fountainhead, a novel written by Ayn Rand, introduces a character, who becomes familiarly known as Dominique Francon. She, unlike most people, is one of the few who avoids love. However, when she meets a man named Howard Roark, she finds herself fighting to destroy him because of the very thing she chose to avoid. The reasons for his desired destruction of Roark are not black and white, but lie somewhere in his neuroses and Roark's psychology. Dominique embodies a masochistic personality. His personal gratification depends on physical pain and suffering, and he finds pleasure in submission and self-sacrifice. He also refuses to allow himself to love anyone or anything. For example, Dominique has a conversation with Alvah Scarrett in which he exclaims his purchase of a statue of Helios from a museum in Europe. She proclaims, "I think I'm in love with it" (145), but when Alvah asks, "Where is it? I'd like to see something you like for a change" (145), she continues to tell him, "I broke it [. ..] I threw it into the air shaft” (145).Dominique's reasoning for destroying the statue lies behind his belief that the world exists to destroy beauty, purity, and perfection statue, “So that no one else would ever see it” (145). He believes that something so beautiful should not be seen by the eyes of ordinary people because they are not worthy of its excellence disrespectful and she doesn't want their negligence to destroy it. She has to destroy it so that no one comes... middle of paper... and gets overwhelmed by the world, then she was right, but if Roark succeeds, then she can too. She believes that the kind of power she and Roark hold is necessary to society, and by denying it, she is depriving it of what it needs most. Society only tolerates mediocrity. Howard Roark is not tolerated. Therefore it is not a mediocrity. Dominique Francon fights to destroy Roark because he is no mediocrity. It's no strings attached. He's strong and rebellious and the world exists to ruin people like him. A society hostile to the ideas of innovative thinkers is one that Howard Roark must continually fight against to survive. Dominique doesn't want Roark to waste his talents on a company that won't appreciate his work, so she has to destroy him before the company can. It must destroy true beauty before those unworthy of seeing it can see it and destroy it.