Women In Fahrenheit 451

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In the novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, Montag becomes increasingly upset at his wife and her friends due to the way they ignore their emotions with superficial conversation and television. When the women talk about their husbands, for instance, Montag notices just how unattached the women are to their own emotions. Mrs. Phelps recalls her husband saying “If I get killed off you just go right ahead and don’t cry but get married again and don’t think of me” (Bradbury 91). Montag notices how nonchalant she was she spoke, as if her husband meant nothing to her. Montag is outraged because he sees this as parallel to his own life as he earlier realized he would not cry over his own wife’s death. Furthermore, Montag is irritated by the lack