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However, Dominique Francon eventually learns not to let a flawed society and misled zeitgeist inhibit her creative and emotional expression and drive, nor poison her hope in her own ideals.

By the end of the novel, Dominique no longer cares what anyone thinks or does.

She lives her life for herself and no one else.

She learns to love and create freely and passionately, and no longer cares whether the world is worthy of her expression.

She has a new world now that is hers alone.

Finally, it is the act of creating, loving, and living in which she finds happiness, rather than the results of these successes, no matter how good or bad the recognition may be.

It no longer matters what might happen or what others think, because the happiness she finds cannot be taken away from her.

Her new world, that in which she sets the standards by which all will live in regards to any association with Dominique, is worthy of her beautiful mind and heart because it belongs to her and no one else, and is shared on her terms alone.

That is, Dominique's terms as well as those with the same individualistic, objectivist and uncompromising ideals.