Stress is relevant everywhere in today's society, people often have coping mechanisms for this stress and those coping mechanisms tend to change throughout people's lives, these coping mechanisms can be seen in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury particularly in the two characters Montag, a fireman who burns books and Mildred Montag's wife. Bradbury insinuates the coping mechanisms of particular characters in Fahrenheit 451 throughout the story, these coping mechanisms are similar to today's society. Ray Bradbury also continuously portrays Montags and Mildred's coping mechanisms throughout the story and how those mechanisms change or don't change in the story. In Fahrenheit 451 Mildred coping mechanisms do not change throughout the novel.