Helen Keller once said, "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the society depicted, like Helen Keller stated, has a wrong idea of what establishes happiness. Throughout the novel, the main character Guy Montag is in search of what the society is missing, he eventually realizes this is happiness. The society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 values isolation and materialism and these values contribute to their unhappiness. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the society values isolation and materialism. While Montag and Clarisse are out walking Clarisse says to Montag, “‘My uncle was arrested another