Controversy In Ernest Hemingway's 'Goal-Oriented'

5. “Goal-Oriented” Franklin hydrates dry DNA and draws it into a mucoid strand as fine as spider’s silk, in which the DNA molecules align in a way suitable for X ray crystallography. She gets her first good photographs. Wilkins is impressed but Franklin will not communicate with him; he has to get what information he can from her technician Raymond Gosling. Franklin brusquely rejects Wilkins’s speculations about the helical structure of DNA. “You may be guessing right, and you may not. You won’t know until you’ve done the work. And once you’ve done the work, you won’t need the guesses, because you’ll have the answer. So what’s the point of the guesses?” She rudely dismisses Wilkins, telling him to keep his guesses to himself. Wilkins is very resentful and complains to Randall that DNA was his project and it was his
Meanwhile, Watson finally meets some au pair girls, pursuing them in as “goal-oriented” a way as he pursues the secret of DNA.
6. “Buried Treasure” Wilkins and Watson become reacquainted over lunch at Crick’s flat. Wilkins sees science as a communal activity and resents Franklin’s secrecy; he subconsciously lets the “Rosy” nickname slip. (Watson later received some scorn from fellow scientists for using the name in his 1968 book, The Double Helix, which many found demeaning to her memory.) Watson goes to King’s in search of Franklin, looking first in the men-only common room, then waiting for her at her basement laboratory. He finds her rude and uncommunicative. He attends her lecture and misinterprets her comment about the amount of water in DNA. Franklin is working mainly on the dry, crystalline “A form” rather than the wet, longer “B form.” Watson socializes increasingly with Wilkins, and Wilkins welcomes the collegial relationship that he lacks with Franklin. Word comes down that the prominent American chemist Linus Pauling has begun working on DNA, much to Watson