GRABBER SENTENCE. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury depicts a society which shuns knowledge and burns books. This results in the citizens of this dystopia lacking depth of thought in both everyday activities and important decisions. One character, Mildred, abuses the use of sleeping pills to cope with difficult situations. Neither Mildred nor her friends possess strong bonds to other people around them because they only worry about themselves. Bradbury uses Mildred and her friends to symbolize all that appears wrong in Fahrenheit 451’s society. When Montag disrupts Mildred and her friends’ routine of watching television, the alarmed and uncomfortable ladies struggle to make conversation. They desire nothing more than for Montag to leave them alone, so they attempt to give him what he wants. Mildred believes Montag would like if they talked about politics, and begins a discussion about the last presidential election. One of her friends, Mrs. Bowles, says “I voted last election, same as everyone, and I laid it on the line for President Noble. I think he’s one of the nicest looking men ever became president” (Bradbury 96). Mildred and her friends continue the conversation by agreeing Nobel deserved to win because of numerous factors relating to his appearance. This infuriates Montag because …show more content…
After Montag reads poetry to her and her friends, Mildred immediately rushes to the bathroom to take some pills. “Montag heard Mildred shake the sleeping tablets into her hand” (Bradbury 101). Mildred chooses not to face her problems with her husband’s behavior or the philosophical questions raised by what she heard and chooses the easy way out. She enjoys her carefree lifestyle supplemented by numerous forms of technology, so she uses the pills to ignore the aspects of life which threaten her ignorance towards the reality of