Toohey picks Gus Webb to work with a group of established architects to remodel the Stoddard Temple into a “home for subnormal children.” Toohey appreciates Webb’s crass honesty, and slowly shifts from championing Keating for architectural commissions to praising Webb’s modern aesthetic. Webb, like Lois Cook, is aware that Toohey picks him for his mediocrity and he has made his peace with that. He does not deceive himself like Keating does.
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Gus Webb Character Timeline in The Fountainhead
The timeline below shows where the character Gus Webb appears in The Fountainhead. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 2: Chapter 15
...group of architects that Toohey chose: Keating, Gordon L. Prescott, John Erik Snyte, and Gus Webb. They use a mishmash of traditional styles to build it. The A.G.A. realizes that Toohey...
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Part 3: Chapter 5
...and makes him wait until he finishes. Then, he makes a phone call to Gus Webb. When Toohey finally turns to Keating, he gives him the check Wynand had given him...
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Part 3: Chapter 6
...best example of this style is a building designed for a brush company by Gus Webb. Keating is hurt that Toohey picked Gus Webb as an example when Keating, too, has...
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Part 4: Chapter 6
...patient. They say there’s a “We Don’t Read Wynand” movement, which is run by Gus Webb, and is raising public sentiment against Wynand. Homer Slottern says he and some fellow advertisers...
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Part 4: Chapter 7
...to recover quickly from that failure, while Keating’s reputation had not. Nowadays, Toohey praises Gus Webb’s modern architecture in his columns, and Keating is considered old-fashioned. The A.G.A. is considered an...
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...change that is coming is too vicious for him to confront. He knows that Gus Webb and Gordon L. Prescott are such poor architects that it is hard for even Keating...
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...why Toohey no longer wants to associate himself with him and instead only praises Gus Webb.
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...field from men who would become irreplaceable” and to clear the way for the “Gus Webbs of the world.” He explains that this is why he’d fought so hard against Howard...
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...most efficient exhibit of planning ingenuity and structural economy.” He’d tried Gordon Prescott and Gus Webb for the job, but they couldn’t do it. He says Keating is all about “plush,...
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Part 4: Chapter 12
...about the Cortlandt Homes, citing Keating as the architect and Gordon L. Prescott and Gus Webb as associate designers. He goes to the construction site and sees that the first building...
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...Keating thinks that “Nobody [is] responsible. There [is] no purpose and no cause.” Toohey added Webb and Prescott as associate designers just to give them some position in the project, and...
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Part 4: Chapter 18
...of doing it [himself].” When the prosecutor asks Keating why he objected to Prescott’s and Webb’s ideas, Keating says he was afraid of Roark.
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