“When Faber is explaining what is wrong with society, he says, “The whole culture’s shot through….The public itself stopped reading on its own accord” (Bradbury 83). While describing Mildred’s earpiece radios, the narrator states, “And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk…” (Bradbury 10). After Guy reads a book of poetry out loud, Mrs. Bowles says, “Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words….Why do people want to hurt people? Not enough hurt in the world, you got to tease people with stuff like that!” (Bradbury 97). While Montag asked Mildred what was on tv, Mildred started talking about how her script was mailed to her: “When it comes time for the missing lines, they all look at me out of the three walls and I say the …show more content…
Compare Winston Noble to Howard Hoag for ten seconds and you can almost figure the results” (Bradbury 93). While Mrs. Bowles and her friends were talking about children, she explained to them what she does with her kids: “You heave them into the ‘parlor’ and turn the switch. It’s like washing clothes: stuff laundry in and slam the lid” (Bradbury 93). Montag came over to Faber’s house to have him explain why books were not important; Faber’s response was, “Remember, the fireman are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord” (Bradbury 83). Mrs. Bowles tells her friends about her children going to school: “I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it’s not bad at all” (Bradbury 92). Mildred loves her wall tv’s that she tells Montag that they should buy another one: “It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in?” (Bradbury