AtlasShrugged|SectioN133
Atlas Shrugged, Part 1, Chapter 3, section 3:
- Plot summary
EddieWillers ends a long day at work by having dinner in the employees' cafeteria of the Taggart Terminal. There he meets MysteryWorker. They sit together and he tells them about the problems of the day and what DagnyTaggart is going to do to fix things. He mentions McNamara is the contractor who will lay the new rails for the RioNorteLine. Eddie will have many similar chats with MysteryWorker throughout the book.
The cafeteria is described as follows: "The cafeteria lay underground. It was a large room with walls of white tile that glittered in the reflections of electric lights and looked like silver brocade. It had a high ceiling, sparkling counters of glass and chromium, a sense of space and light."
This description is in sharp contrast to the most expensive barroom in New York, from Section131, that was atop a skyskraper but made to look like a cellar. The contrast gives the chapter title - The Top and the Bottom - it's irony.
- Setting
The employees' cafeteria of the Taggart Terminal.
- Characters
DagnyTaggart: Mentioned.
McNamara: Mentioned.
RichardHalley: Mentioned.