Unexpected

The past reading really threw things at me that were unexpected. Francisco defending Rearden and Cherryl killing herself are definitely two of these unexpected happenings. I keep admiring Dagny as the story goes along -- her will power and independence are truly admirable. Characters I've come close to hating are Lillian and James. I think Lillian and James are both just extremely immature and desperate -- they do not know how to control what is going on in their lives. James just continues to have freak outs and blaming it on everyone else, and Lillian is kind of a backstabber, to be honest. Lillian deals with her hardships by cheating on her husband to make him feel guilty when he honestly could not care less. Lillian sleeps with James, whom she feels nothing for. She confesses this to Hank and he frankly does not care. Philip, one of his family members, asks him for a job and he refuses. His family is falling to pieces and once again, he does not care. His family begs him not to disappear and he thinks doing so would be unjust to him. He is very selfish.
 Cherryl kills herself. She comes to the realization that James is not as great as she thought he was, and that he wants to be great by not doing anything. He wants greatness to just come to him, instead of working for it like every one does. She goes to Dagny to apologize for all the things she said to her, and Dagny maturely responds with the advice of not letting any ill-willed people get to her. Cherryl comes home to the news that James cheated on her and he beats her, and with that Cherryl takes off, jumps into a river, and drowns.
Another thing that shocked me from the reading was how Francisco defended Hank when he was about to get shot. The Wet Nurse had just been shot and died in Hank's arms, and right after Hank got hit in the head. Francisco was the one who shot Hank's attacker.
These are all unexpected turns in the story... I'm going to finish the book next week. I'm eager to find out what else is going to happen and what else is going to shock me this week.