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A talented young sculptor, Mallory gains infamy when he tries to shoot Toohey and then refuses to divulge to anyone why exactly he did it. Toohey pleads for clemency on Mallory’s behalf, stating that he wants to make no martyrs, and Mallory is released. He leads a life of poverty and hopelessness because he gets no commissions, until Roark hires him to make a statue of Dominique Francon for the Stoddard Temple. Mallory respects Roark immensely, and remains a loyal friend to him. He tells Roark that he shot Toohey because Toohey represented the end of individualism and the rise of the collective, which Mallory likens to an unthinking monster. Roark is pleased when Mallory gets back on his feet and encourages him to keep sculpting since he is very talented. Mallory is very protective of Roark and rages against his misfortunes. Roark tells him that like Dominique, Mallory, too, must learn that the world has no power over them. When Wynand is introduced to Mallory’s work by the statue of Dominique, he is so impressed that he buys all of Mallory’s other work, which leaves Mallory with a tidy sum of money. Mallory represents the talented young artists who suffer at the hands of the unthinking collective. He gives up on himself until Roark inspires him to be strong, and he ends up seeing success.
Steven Mallory Quotes in The Fountainhead
The The Fountainhead quotes below are all either spoken by Steven Mallory or refer to Steven Mallory. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 4: Chapter 8
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When Keating had gone, Roark leaned against the door, closing his eyes. He was sick with pity.
He had never felt this before—not when Henry Cameron collapsed in the office at his feet, not when he saw Steven Mallory sobbing on a bed before him. Those moments had been clean. But this was pity—this complete awareness of a man without worth or hope, this sense of finality, of the not to be redeemed. There was shame in this feeling—his own shame that he should have to pronounce such judgment upon a man, that he should know an emotion which contained no shred of respect.
This is pity, he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.
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Steven Mallory Quotes in The Fountainhead
The The Fountainhead quotes below are all either spoken by Steven Mallory or refer to Steven Mallory. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 4: Chapter 8
Quotes
When Keating had gone, Roark leaned against the door, closing his eyes. He was sick with pity.
He had never felt this before—not when Henry Cameron collapsed in the office at his feet, not when he saw Steven Mallory sobbing on a bed before him. Those moments had been clean. But this was pity—this complete awareness of a man without worth or hope, this sense of finality, of the not to be redeemed. There was shame in this feeling—his own shame that he should have to pronounce such judgment upon a man, that he should know an emotion which contained no shred of respect.
This is pity, he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.
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