Why Peter Keating Fails to Propose to Katie

In the fountainhead, there's one night where Peter Keating gets kind of a spine or a first handed jolt and goes to propose to Katie. It was something that he didn't expect to expected some big opposition from to anybody. He doesn't end up actually going through with marrying her. Why do you think Rand put that in there and and had him fail? I mean, my sense is that it's there in the same sense as the painting at the end is there, right? Finn Harper: Southern California is still an amazing place in terms of attracting all these people.