In the beginning, Montag loved his job, he enjoyed burning books. Montag loved “to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed”(pg.3) He was proud of being a fireman, of wearing the symbolic symbols, it truly made him happy. Montag was contempt with his life and never questioned anything, until he met Clarisse. She made Montag realize things he had never thought about. In the book “Fahrenheit 451” Montag learns that his perfect world is corrupt, he goes through a series of changes and starts to realize and question all the imperfections and flaws in the world.
First, when Montag returned from work he always had the feeling of someone waiting for him, and then he met Clarisse. After having an interesting conversation with the crazy, seventeen-year old girl “she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. ‘Are you happy?’ she said. … Of course I’m happy. What does she think? I’m not?” (pg.10) I don’t think Montag ever stopped to think about …show more content…
In the beginning, in Montag's first encounter with Clarisse, she asks "'Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?'"(pg.8) Interestingly, Clarisse isn't afraid to ask a fireman about his job, and question the true role of a fireman. Many people would've been afraid to question anything, especially the role of a fireman with the fear of getting killed, like Clarisse. At the time Montag simply laughs it off, but later when he's playing poker with his fellow firemen he asks "' Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?'"(pg.34) Montag realized that maybe the role of the firemen is wrong, and he was bold enough to ask it in front of firemen. Like Montag the firemen find it amusing and laugh, but, maybe Montag started to change the way they thought about the role of a fireman as