Dagny risks her life to catch the destroyer (Carlye Nealon)

       I liked this section of Atlas Shrugged that I read this week because Dagny seemed back to normal.  She was more independent and did not seem to need to rely on Rearden for everything.  She just went along with her own thoughts and instincts.  The part that interested me the most about Dagny was at the end of Part 2.  This is where we see Dagny being the strong, determined woman that we know she is.  When she is riding a train that soon becomes frozen, she must take order over the passengers to fix the problem and still go to Utah to talk to Quentin before he disappears like everyone.  When she fixes her first problem, she goes to an airfield to get a plane to fly herself to Utah.  This is a dangerous act and shows how Dagny is such a superior and confident woman.  Ayn Rand does an incredible job when she describes the scene of Dagny alone in the sky.  She uses so much imagery that I can see in my head everything that Dagny is passing as she flies.  When Dagny reaches Utah and sees that Quentin just took off with someone, whom we think must be the destroyer, Dagny freaks out.  She takes off again and follows them on a dangerous route.  She is determined to find them even if it is the last thing she will do.  Dagny takes her plane too far and “in the break of an instant, when she seized the wheel again, the light was gone, but her ship was spinning, her ears were bursting with silence and her propeller stood stiffly straight before her: her motor was dead,” (page 640).  The end of part 2 leaves readers hanging because we do not know what happened to Dagny after she crashed.  I am scared because Dagny is my favorite character and I hope she is okay.