Dominique Francon Timeline and Summary

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Dominique Francon Timeline and Summary

  • Dominique is a controversial, and bored, newspaper woman for The Banner.
  • Her column is very popular.
  • She meets her father's employee, Peter Keating, and isn't a big fan.
  • Dominique goes on summer vacation in Connecticut and falls for Roark without knowing who he is.
  • He rapes her and then skips town.
  • Dominique meets Roark again in New York and the two begin a clandestine affair.
  • She also spends her time engaging in power plays with Ellsworth Toohey.
  • Dominique works to build up Keating and to destroy Roark for various masochistic reasons.
  • Dominique poses nude for a statue that's set to go in the Stoddard Temple.
  • At Roark's first trial, Dominique testifies against him, but she ends up praising him on the sly.
  • She tries to publish her trial testimony and gets fired for the attempt by Wynand.
  • Dominique proposes to and then marries Peter Keating as a way to punish herself.
  • Their marriage is a farce.
  • Dominique then sets out to get Keating a sweet commission and begins to interact with Gail Wynand.
  • She ends up divorcing Keating and marries Wynand.
  • Dominique starts seeing Roark again as he and Wynand become BFFs.
  • Roark gets Dominique involved in his plot to blow up the Cortlandt Housing Project.
  • Dominique then leaves Wynand for Roark.
  • She and Roark get married.