Johnny Stokes is a poor but intelligent, good-looking boy whom Ellsworth Toohey sprays with a hose when they are both young boys. Toohey dislikes the fact that Stokes doesn’t need to work as hard as Toohey does on his school lessons, and that he is physically stronger. Toohey mocks Stokes’s poverty to shame him.
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Part 2: Chapter 9
When Ellsworth Toohey was seven years old, he turned a hose on Johnny Stokes and soaked his much-loved Sunday suit. Stokes was bright and good-looking while Toohey was frail....
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...math. However, he had to work hard on his lessons and he did work hard—unlike Johnny Stokes , to whom learning came “automatically.” Toohey didn’t take part in athletics, which he said...
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