Mildreads Characteristics
Society changes people is positive and negative ways. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag's wife who he married in Chicago when they were both twenty is Mildred. Mildred over the years had grow to be self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling.
First Mildred is selfish,self-centered, because she is unwilling and unable to analyze rationally. Mildred lives a shallow life. She distances herself from real emotions and interactions with people. Mildred talks to the” The Family”, three 3d wall tvs, when it’s her scripted lines she reads them in the blanks. “ Well, wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred...And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering pack of tree apes that said nothing.. He had taken to calling them relatives from the very first” (page 44).The characters in the wall are a metaphorical wall between Montag and Mildred.
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When Montag asks her for an aspirin and water she replies with “ You’ve got to get up. It’s noon. You’ve slept in five hours than usual.”(page 46). In this few lines it’s concluded that mildred is used to her routine and prefers for Montag to get up and out of the house s that she can go on with her day. It’s been emphasized that society demands an artificial beauty in women by diets and hair dye.Mildred is influenced by this. “Her hair is chemically burnt and she has abnormally white skin”(page45-46). Mildred spends a majority of her time indoors