What's so shocking about this? Well, in this novel, which often reflects the 1950s America in which it was written, women don't normally run railroads. Dagny is the Vice President of Operations of her family's railroad company, Taggart Transcontinental. Dagny seems to shock and surprise people without even trying. Dagny certainly knows how to make a grand entrance, whether it's showing up at a party with a one-of-a-kind outfit or crashing her plane into the middle of someone's super secret town. This is how Midas Mulligan introduces Dagny to the others when she arrives in Galt's "Atlantis" with a literal bang. So let's break Dagny down into her various component parts and see what we come up with. And things are further complicated by the fact that we often experience the book's roller-coaster ride of events and emotions through her eyes. Dagny makes a lot of polarizing choices that can be hard to understand. But she's really one of the most mystifying and complicated people in the book.
She's the star of the whole shebang, and we get almost an excess of information about her – compared to other characters at least.
The novel may be obsessed with the question "Who is John Galt?" but first we need to ask, who is Dagny Taggart? At first glance, Dagny may seem like the easiest character to figure out.
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