Actually, I loved Atlas Shrugged, but I thought that "the speech" was a bit redundant - I had already gotten the message.Ditto.
To be honest, I was disappointed. Why did she want to make him behave that way? Unless that is part of the message...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
