(MIP-2)Mildred, Montag's ‘Wife’ is deeply affected by technology in a way that makes her lack many human characteristics. (SIP-A)Mildred is completely closed off to the world around her, she has no connection to the people In her life. (STEWE-1) Montag came home, from a conversation with Clarisse on the way home from work, to his wife,“He opened the bedroom door. It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon had set. Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb-world where no sound from the great city could penetrate. The room was not empty. He listened. The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its
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On her island the only thing she feels is music. Her life is so tightly shut by the technology around her, that she never listens to people, she never makes a connection to anybody. (SIP-B) Mildred is unlike a human, she is just like a creature that obeys technology.(STEWE-1) Montag is so used to seeing his wife doing the same thing all the time,“Without turning on the light he imagined how this room would look. His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time”(Bradbury 10). Mildred has formed a routine with her technology, every night she listens to it, every night for two years.
On her island the only thing she feels is music. Her life is so tightly shut by the technology around her, that she never listens to people, she never makes a connection to anybody. (SIP-B) Mildred is unlike a human, she is just like a creature that obeys technology.(STEWE-1) Montag is so used to seeing his wife doing the same thing all the time,“Without turning on the light he imagined how this room would look. His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time”(Bradbury 10). Mildred has formed a routine with her technology, every night she listens to it, every night for two years.