[Atlas Shrugged] Dagny Taggard is an insane unreliable narrator and John Galt probably does not exist.

When you read Atlas Shrugged you cannot fail to notice how Dagny is always right. From the very first scene where she calls the stop light at the train track BS and orders the train to continue to the very end when she's living in her perfect utopia she's never wrong.

My theory: she's a narcissist that cannot see the world in any way other than her being right and she re-bends what had happened to fit her opinions. She's probably not even aware that she's lying to herself and everyone else.

So here's what had happened in reality: Her train got delayed when the stop light was on. The train driver waited for it to clear. Meanwhile Dagny was making a big scene about it calling everyone a lazy ahole and ordering them to move. Finally after a couple of hours the driver got a message from dispatch that the track was cleared and they could continue.

In Dagny's bent perspective: The train was waiting for no good reason and it took a lot of ass-kicking on her part to get the lazy workers to move. When they finally submitted to her will it turned out she was right and there was nothing wrong with the train track.

Reality: Dagny was seduced by a con man named Rearden. He said everything she wanted to hear - that every single opinion of hers was correct and that she was one of the precious few that understood how the world works.

He slept with her and he sold her on his scam - that he's an entrepreneur who creates a metal compound that is twice the strength of steel but half the weight and half the price.

Dagny then tried to push through a deal with Rearden in her company but this was canceled by higher ups when they've gotten wind of it.

Dagny's head: She met this majestic visionary person named Rearden that understood how the world works and had a great invention that could transform the way train business works for the better. But alas the lazy and stupid establishment stopped it because they were against any and all progress.

In the end she retreats completely into her fantasy world. She's barely scraping by in an asylum but the idea that she's wrong just can't exist in her head: the inmates are really other great minds that don't want to support the lazy looters that have taken over the world. She often converses with John Galt (who may or may not really be an inmate) who used to be a simple menial worker at her company but is really "the greatest genius who's ever lived" and has "organized this wonderful retreat for the ingenious people" a.k.a. the asylum. There she writes her memoirs titled "Atlas Shrugged".