Why Man Needs Approval

Marsha Familiaro Enright

In Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, Ken Danagger asks Dagny Taggart

“And if you met those great men in heaven,…what would you want to say to them?”

“Just…just ‘hello,’ I guess.”

“That's not all,” said Danagger. “There’s something you’d want to hear from them… you’d want them to look at you and say, ‘Well done.’”

She dropped her head and nodded silently…

(Rand 1957, 735)