Zane Van de Put's Atlast Shrugged Reaction #3

  The more I read Atlas Shrugged the more hooked I get. I find myself trying to read the novel every moment I get. Numerous things are starting to happen in the novel. For instance, Dagney finally fulfills her dream of being as great as Nat Taggart. She realizes this when she drives by crowds of people on the new John Galt line. Dagny says “it was like the age when Nat Taggart moved across the country, when people gathered to greet the first run of a train” (pg. 228)
    Another huge plot point in the story is that Dagney and Hank start to have an affair. After their successful first day with the John Galt Line, Dagney and Hank celebrate it with something more than just a friendly gesture. The problem with this affair is that Hank has a wife, Lillian. Hank clearly does not love Lillian any more but he is still married to her. I want to read on to find out if whether or not Henry and Dagney was just a one-time thing. Also what will happen to Lillian and Hank if Lillian finds out?
    The most important thing to happen in the reading was the conversation between Eddie Willers and a man not named. Eddie goes to an underground cafeteria every once in a while to talk to an unnamed colleague. Even though these conversations seem pointless to the readers, one instance seemed vey important to me. During one of these conversations, Eddie tells the man about how crucial Dwight Sanders is to the success of the John Galt Line. Eddie tells him that Dwight Sanders signed a contract with Dagney to build ten diesel engines for the railroad. Shortly after the conversation, Dagney finds out that “Dwight Sanders had retired from business suddenly without reason or explanation” (pg. 206). This seemed to be too much of a coincidence for me. I am left to wonder, who is this unnamed colleague?