Fahrenheit 451 Character Analysis

Instead of focusing on their TVs, these people should be opened to wonders of the world around them, like Faber and Clarisse, so they are able to see what is truly important. We learned from Faber, a character where the author’s voice comes through to the reader, that Montag’s society was missing some very important aspects due to their obsession with physical things. One thing that is missing is quality. Faber describes this using books saying, “they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features" (Bradbury 79). Faber, who has taken a good look at his surrounding society has realized this when others haven’t. He is a good example of what these citizen should be like, whereas

People have lost the time to think for themselves when they focus on the physical things in life. They begin to stop wondering and thinking of the things that really matter to them. The third thing Faber mentions is “the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the inter-action of the first two" (Bradbury 80). This means that based on what is learned through the quality of things and the time to think for themselves, society must take action and do something to fix a broken part of their life. Being focused on too much ‘stuff’, doesn’t allow people to be observant of the world around them, and they end up losing meaningful parts of their life. Clarisse was always observing the world, as she kept bringing up aspects of nature and the outside world. She “rarely watch[ed] the 'parlor walls' or [went] to races or Fun Parks” (Bradbury 7) although most of the kids her age were only engrossed in these things. This gave Clarisse “ lots of time for crazy thoughts” (Bradbury 7) as well as time to observe things like “the two-hundred-foot-long billboards in the country” (Bradbury 7) and the “dew on the grass in the morning” (Bradbury 7) and that “there’s a man in the moon” (Bradbury