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Peter Keating Timeline and Summary

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Peter Keating Timeline and Summary

  • Keating graduates architecture school with top honors.
  • After some debate he accepts a job with Guy Francon.
  • Keating quickly schmoozes his way up the ladder at the firm.
  • However, he has to keep asking Roark for help with his designs on the sly.
  • Keating continues his on-again, off-again romance with Catherine Halsey.
  • He meets and Ellsworth Toohey and accepts the man as a sort of mentor.
  • Keating causes Lucius Heyer to have a stroke and then finds out that Heyer left him a ton of money in his will.
  • Keating wins the competition to design the Cosmo-Slotnick building (with Roark's help) and becomes a partner in the firm with Francon.
  • Keating also testifies against Roark at his first trial.
  • Keating proposes to Katie, but he then accepts a proposal from Dominique and runs off with her instead.
  • Their marriage is a disaster, and Keating grows increasingly bitter and unstable.
  • Wynand effectively buys Dominique away from Keating in exchange for a commission.
  • A downtrodden Keating accepts the arrangement.
  • Keating begins to visit Roark again and gets Roark to help him with the Cortlandt project.
  • Keating meets Katie again and his horrified to find her so changed and stony.
  • Though Keating tries, he's unable to protect the integrity of Roark's design for the Cortlandt project.
  • Ellsworth Toohey then breaks Keating down and makes him testify against Roark at his second trial.
  • Keating ends the novel alone and pretty miserable.