As seen above, Ray Bradbury uses contrasting characters like Clarisse and Mildred in Fahrenheit 451 to show two different people with different characteristics and perspectives in the novel’s society. Clarisse is not common in their society because while everyone else is watching their parlor walls; she’s observing and thinking. I feel that in today’s society; the number of people like Clarisse is becoming fewer due to technology advancing in our own society. Mildred, however, is the opposite because she’s the exact definition of a “normal person” in her society. Unlike Clarisse, Mildred spends all her time watching the parlor walls, and she becomes a roadblock for Montag with his new found love of thinking and reading. In addition, I feel