![]() ![]() Too intolerant to “get along” with anybody. Too uncompromising to succeed in the way of the popular young men who know how to get along with those in power. He is too impatient to toil slowly through the years for the things he wants. But this is how she describes the protagonist, Danny Renahan, in her notes. Leonard Peikoff calls it “by far Ayn Rand’s most malevolent story,” and she didn’t get very far in planning it. The theme was that the mob of mediocre people destroys the best and heroic in man. The Little Street was Ayn Rand’s first attempt in English at planning a novel, which she made in 1928, at the age of twenty-three (note that it had been only a few years since she left Russia, and the influence of the country-and its literature?-must have been fresh on her mind). ![]()
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