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Originally Posted by foxpaws View Post

lendaddy - Rand could have used many symbols for freedom - eagles - in the west wild horses equate to freedom, heck even a drilling rig would have been appropriate - she very specifically chose the dollar sign to rise over the rubble of the cross for a good reason - the symbolism at the end of the book means a lot - and she obviously wanted to get across a very specific point.
I'm not talking about freedom in the flag waving sense, freedom in the spiritual sense(not to be confused with religion). It's all about passion and the freedom to pursue it.

And back to your original claim, I've struggled to come up with a single beloved character in her books that celebrated the trappings of wealth.... I've come up with none. Money and wealth are byproducts of the passion not the goal.
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