![]() ![]() One day, while the radio in the fire station mentions that war is imminent, Montag asks Beatty if there was a time when firemen prevented fires, instead of started them. ![]() For the next week, Montag continues to talk with Clarisse and to examine his own life. Captain Beatty tells him not to worry-unless, Beatty adds jokingly, Montag has a guilty conscience. She sits in the parlor, engrossed in its three full walls of interactive TV.īack at the fire station, Montag is threatened by the Mechanical Hound, a robotic hunter that can be programmed to track any scent. ![]() Mildred is saved, but the next day she has no memory of her suicide attempt. When he returns home to find that his wife, Mildred, has taken a bottle full of sleeping pills, he realizes that he is not happy. However, his discontent, secret even from himself, becomes clear after he meets Clarisse McClellan, a teenage girl and his new neighbor, who engages in such outlandish behavior as walking instead of driving and having conversations. Guy Montag is a fireman who believes he is content in his job, which, in the oppressive future American society depicted in Fahrenheit 451, consists of burning books and the possessions of book owners. ![]()
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