How Does Montag Change In Fahrenheit 451

In the book Fahrenhiet 451 by Ray Bradbury the main character Guy Montag changes when he relizes that he was not happy after a conversation with his seventeen year old nieghboor Clarisse.In the society of Fahrenhiet 451 is a dystopian type of society. The government is burning books that do not follow their beliefs or are too “offensive” towards one group of people. People that do not fit in or are “anti-social” are brung to see a therapist or are killed. After Montag gets home from his job of being a fireman, he meets a seventeen year old woman named Clarisse. Clarisse asks Montag questions, after Montag dismisses every question Clarisse asks Montag this question before leaving ”Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look

When Clarisse asked Montag this question she walked away to actually make him think if he was truly happy, not just answer the question like a machine. Moments after Clarisse he actually realizes that he isn’t happy. “He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Darkness. He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back”,(9,Bradbury). This is when Montag has come to the conclusion that he was not happy. He wasn’t happy because when he actually had time to think about it he found that he did not have anything to be happy for. The society that he was in was actually making him miserable. His wife Mildred doesn't pay any attention. And every question ask by someone he has to answer subconsciously or the government will get

Montag has many books that he’s hidden over the years. But after an event of an old lady who killed herself in a fire at her own home to keep her books, Montag has really changed and started reading books. While in the subway Montag finds out the true meaning of the commercials on the train. Montag says this about the subways hypnotizing commercial about toothpaste, “The people were pounded into submission, they did not run, there was no place to run, the great air train fell down its shafting earth”, (Bradbury,75).This is when Montag realizes what the commercials are really doing to the people around him. These commercials are so hypnotic that the people in the train can’t even think, all those people in the train can only think about “Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent”. This caused Montag to not be able to focus on reading his book right in front of him. The society that these people are in doesn't want them to have their own ideas, they want them to be complacent and all have the same opinion whichs is the ones the government gives them. These people aren't realizing their own melancholy and chaos going on because of these subtle hypnotic things. This chaos makes Montag very upset and to the point where he starts reading his book out loud to make him