Montag first realizes that his society isn’t good when he meets Clarisse. Clarisse makes him realize that “he was not happy”. He wore his happiness like a mask,” (9). The phrase, “he wore his happiness like a mask” highlights that happiness was not Montag’s true feeling. Instead, it was a fake one. He pretended to be happy around people, when he really wasn’t happy. When having an argument with Mildred, Montag brings up his thoughts about books. He had “thought about books”. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper,” (49). Montag has a changing relationship with books. He initially hated books and thought they should all be burned, but Montag believes that books should be normalized in society. He realizes the human effort and creativity behind each book that has been created. …show more content…
I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense,” (78). Montag talks about his frustration with people’s obsession with technology and how they’re lacking knowledge to realize that the technology is actually a distraction from what the government is hiding. Technology is making people become ignorant, making them not care about the world they live in because their whole world is the parlor