The way people choose to live their lives is determined by the way they allow other lives to affect them. Some people confront problems head on, and others choose to wear a mask and act as if the problems aren’t there. In Ray Bradbury’s “fahrenheit 451” society chooses to wear a blindfold to the realities of their issues and fake a life of happiness. Throughout the story Bradbury displays his characters to have one track minds. He does this to emphasize the need of distraction in order for the characters to function. For example, the simplest things in life such as TV acts as a distraction from reality. The character Mildred displays this idea when asked to discuss real life activity, or even just think or talk about the real world