Acharya Prashant explains that Dominique's marriage to Peter Keating is a reaction to her inability to reconcile the coexistence of greatness and pettiness in the world. She respects perfection and excellence but is deeply pained by the presence of mediocrity and ignorance. Her worldview is one where the true and the false should not exist together; if the false refuses to disappear, she believes the true must be removed to avoid desecration. This perspective differs from that of Howard Roarke, who remains indifferent and unaffected by the world's mediocrity, viewing the world merely as a stage for self-expression rather than a source of validation.