Guy Montag is the main protagonist in Ray Bradbury's riveting novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” who psychoanalytically speaking, was already burdened with a fragile state of mind to begin with. The novel is based off a “utopian” setting in which any literature or any sorts that offends anyone is on the brink of extinction. What contributes to this extinction fire would be firefighter burning these books to keep society “happy.” He is rather typical in the way in which he fits the “stereotypical role of a third generation fireman with his “Black hair, black brows .. fiery face, and . . . blue-steel shaved but unshaved look(Cliff Notes).” Montag was enjoying himself living the ‘life of a firemen” burning books, coming home to a meaningless marriage and playing the beastly game of letting small animals loose …show more content…
When it only takes a “crazy 17 year-old teenager” to question a firemen’s happiness and occupation, and to make him realize that whatever true “happiness” he thought he actually acquired was never really there. This may only just of been a realization for him at first, but it was a realization that became clear when he walked into his unstimulating bedroom to two twin beds and a meaningless marriage to a wife who overdoses on sleeping pills and does not seem to remember much about her anyway. Plus, she seems to not recall her suicide attempts after being succumbed to treatments to revive her. A result from these suicides and sleeping addiction is this antisocial personality disorder that she seems to portray. As demonstrated in the book, what should be her social human to human interaction has been replaced by their conch shell radios and television programs that are all simultaneously controlled anyway. All in all for Montag to reach the ever so riveting conclusion of how did he meet her since he does not seem to