In the first chapter of Atlas there is a passage that catches the reader's eye with its overt symbolism: What I want to do here is to describe one of the literary methods by which Ayn Rand achieves the peculiar meaning-saturation of this book. And this is a very intentional book: every detail in it seems to mean something, to be intended to mean something. Whether or not it is true that, as the narrator of Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground says, "there are intentional and unintentional cities," it is certainly true that there are intentional and unintentional books.
One of the features of Atlas Shrugged that makes it such an unusual book, especially for one that is so overwhelmingly popular, is how highly wrought it is. Some Structural Aspects of Atlas Shrugged
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