The narrative continued with a description of one passenger in each of the fourteen cars of the Comet (other than Kip Chalmers' private car attached to the rear). In each case, that passenger was described as being in sympathy with either the government's policies or with the guiding [[philosophy]], such as it was, behind them. Jason Lee Steorts, writing in ''National Review'', provided some examples:<ref name=Steorts>Steorts JL, "The Greatly Ghastly Rand," ''National Review,'', August 30, 2010, pp. 48. <http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/244381/greatly-ghastly-rand-jason-lee-steorts></ref>
{{cquote|The man in Bedroom A, Car No. 1, was a professor of sociology who taught that individual ability is of no consequence. . . .
. . . The woman in Bedroom D, Car No. 10, was a mother who had put her two children to sleep in the berth above her, carefully tucking them in, protecting them from drafts and jolts; a mother whose husband held a government job enforcing directives, which she defended by saying, "I don’t care, it’s only the rich that they hurt. After all, I must think of my children."
The man in Roomette 3, Car No. 11, was a sniveling little neurotic who wrote cheap little plays into which, as a social message, he inserted cowardly little obscenities. . . . }}