Dagny Taggart

Dagny Taggart is the main character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Dagny is Vice-President in Charge of Operations at Taggart Transcontinental. She is the female heroic character, the counterpart to John Galt, and her journey is the journey of the reader exploring and understanding Galt's philosophy. Those in the know understand that she is the one who really runs the railroad. In the course of the novel, she forms romantic liaisons with three men of ability: Francisco d'Anconia; Hank Rearden; and John Galt, respectively. Galt is the one who, because of the sum total of his qualities, will become the ultimate choice of Dagny. However, she stays on good terms with the other two, even though she ends her sexual relationships with both of them. In the climactic scene near the end of the book, Dagny and her two former lovers, (with Ragnar Danneskjöld, whom she likes but was never romantically involved with), risk their lives to save her present lover. This implies that Rand's... full article at wikipedia