| 1st Name | Surname | Role | Born | Overview |
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| John | Galt | |||
| Eddie | Wilers | Eddie Wilers is Taggart Transcontinental’s Special Assistant to the Vice-President in Charge of Operation (Dagny Taggart) (p 18). Wilers was 32 years old at the start of Atlas Shrugged (p 3). His “eyes were blue, wide and unquestioning; he had blond hair and a square face, unremarkable except for that look of unscrupulous attentiveness and open, puzzled wonder.” (p 8) “He had spent most of his childhood with the Taggart children, and now he worked for them [like his father and grandfather]” (p. 5) Eddie’s “lonely apartment indicates that he was single (p 5). “What Taggart disliked about Eddie Wilers was this habit of looking straight into people’s eyes.” (p 7) |
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| Robert | Stadler | |||
| Floyd | Ferris | |||
| James | Taggart | “He looked like a man approaching fifty … He was thirty-nine years old.” (p. 7) “Don’t bother me, don’t bother me, don’t bother me … .” (p. 7) | ||
| Orren | Boyle | First introduced on p 8 amidst James Taggart and Eddie Wilers’ meeting. | ||
| Ellis | Wyatt | Ellis Wyatt “was thirty-three years old and had a violent temper.” (p 9-10) Wyatt “had discovered some way to revive exhausted oil wells” (p 10), allowing him to give “a shot of adrenaline to the heart of the mountain” (p 9) to a “rocky patch in the mountains of Colorado” (p 9) with “dying oil wells” (p 9). The oil fields brought “new towns, new power plants, new factories to a region nobody had every noticed” within just 8 years, in a time “when pumps were stopping in one famous field after another” (p 9). | ||
| Henry | Rearden | |||
| Pop | Harper | The chief clerk among James Taggart’s personal staff (p 11). Had a “blank, emaciated face and white hair” (p 12) and the “cynical indifference which Eddie Wilers had seen in the eyes of the bum on the street corner” (p 11). Harper’s brief monologue (p 12) is reminiscent of We the Living’s method of communicating the destitution of Soviet Russia. | ||
| Dagny | Taggart | Taggart is the Vice-President in Charge of Operation of Taggart Transcontinental (p 17). She is introduced while taking the Taggart Comet overnight (p 12) to New York (p 14) from Cleveland (p 19), where she had phoned Hank Rearden to order the steel needed for the Rio Norte Line. | ||
| Brakeman | The Taggart Comet’s “blonde and young” brakeman is adjusting an air conditioner on the Taggart Comet when he is introduced to the reader; Dagny Taggart is mystified when she overhears him whistling RIchard Halley’s unpublished Fifth Concerto (p 13-14). | |||
| Richard | Halley | |||
| Ayers | President of the Ayers Music Publishing Company, which has published all of Richard Halley’s work (p 24). | |||
| Owen | Kellogg | |||
| Lillian | Rearden | |||
| Philip | Rearden | |||
| Mother | Rearden | |||
| Paul | Larkin | |||
| Ives | ||||
| Wesley | Mouch | |||
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