Meaghan Sylver blog 7

            I currently find Ellis Wyatt to be a confusing character. He once told Dagny that if the law was signed about making producers more equal, that he would bring all the oil companies down with him. But Ellis Wyatt has done more than that; he has created a domino effect that has hurt the entire economy. He is not only dragging all the oil companies down with him, but he is taking down the railroads and therefore the economy because of how influential his company used to be. Without oil from his company all companies seem to suffer, as none are as great as his was. No one can find the secret to how he ran such a magnificent company. Many others have tried to save it, but deem the task impossible.

            Now, later in the novel, I am finding out the effects that Ellis Wyatt unintentionally placed on Dagny and Taggart Transcontinental. Not only is it presenting a hard time due the lack of fuel for the diesel engines, but it is also giving Dagny a hard time because workers are constantly leaving. Colorado, which was made into such an important state in a way of technology and progression, has fallen into a town where desertion is occurring. Colorado is going back to being a state of nothing. How will these problems be fixed in a way that the entire economy will not collapse and Taggart Transcontinental will still manage to succeed?