They constantly mock him, scold him, and demand he do things for them. (And also an evil industrialist.) His mother, brother, and wife seem to think it's their mission in life to torment Hank. Henry Rearden is blasted in the media for being a greedy industrialist, and he's blasted in his own house for being a workaholic. Henry Rearden is what people who don't know Hank very well call him, and this group includes businesspeople (not the cool ones) like James Taggart as well as members of Hank's own family. Let's start off by assessing Hank's other persona: Henry. We follow his struggles and his personal development from the very beginning of the novel. Perhaps it's because, in a novel filled with a lot of larger-than-life, heroic figures, Hank is someone we can relate to pretty well. In fact, the worse he is treated, the more likable he becomes. Somehow, though, Hank manages to not come off as a sad-sack Charlie Brown.
His family is awful, his wife is evil, his true love disappears then dumps him for another man, and in the end he has to go live in the same town with said true love and her new boyfriend. Which is a serious bummer for poor Hank.) Hank might just have the worst life of any character in the novel.
(At least until he gets upstaged in Volume 3. Han is our co-protagonist, along with the savvy Dagny Taggart, and our main romantic male lead for much of the novel.
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