Philip Kaifer's Comment on Alan's Post

I agree with what you say in your second paragraph. I too was thrilled when it turned out that John Galt was the man she woke up to see. I had been waiting since the very first page of the novel to learn who this man was and what he stood for. As for the chapter seeming fantasized, I also relate to what you are saying. It’s as if she were Edmund and she woke of in Narnia to the queen offering her Turkish delight. And the entirety of John Galt’s Atlantis just seems so unrealistic and unlikely, a utopia within a larger dystopia that is the United States. I don’t really agree with the reference to Atlas, I don’t see how these people are keeping the sky from falling. It seems to me more like they are hiding from the outside world, and not that they are responsible for keeping it functioning.