Guy Montag: 30 year old firefighter. He loves to burn books- “It’s a pleasure to burn…”- until one day he and his crew burn down an old lady’s house and he realizes how terrified she looked, and how much the books meant to her. Guy is passionate, driven, crazy at times, a free thinker, but identity crises happen with him often. His crises begin when he meets Clarisse, and she tells him how he’s so much different from other firemen. “When I talk, you look at me. … The others {firefighters} would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me.” -pg. 21. He wishes to think like Clarisse and always be positive and have a good outlook on life like she does. After she told him that he wasn’t like other firefighters, he “felt his body divide
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Your house, your clean-up.” - pg. 109. This makes Montag furious. He watched his house crumble down to the ground, similar to a house of cards facing the wind. Beatty begins to make snarky retorts about how evil books are, which makes Montag snap. One blow to the face from the flamethrower was all it took, and Beatty was dead. “Beatty, he thought, you’re not a problem now. You always said, don’t face a problem, burn it. Well, now I’ve done both. Goodbye, Captain.” - pg. 115. This quote really defines Montag to me, because he started out as a firefighter whose only wish was to burn down books, but now his only wish was to burn down the captain. It’s a great example of how people change over time, and their views on certain topics change with them. We see that Montag’s change has fully completed when towards the end of the book, he jumps into a river, strips himself of his old persona, and gets out of the river on the other side as an entirely new Montag. He sees men huddled around a fire, and thinks of the fire not to be burning and destroying, but warming and
Your house, your clean-up.” - pg. 109. This makes Montag furious. He watched his house crumble down to the ground, similar to a house of cards facing the wind. Beatty begins to make snarky retorts about how evil books are, which makes Montag snap. One blow to the face from the flamethrower was all it took, and Beatty was dead. “Beatty, he thought, you’re not a problem now. You always said, don’t face a problem, burn it. Well, now I’ve done both. Goodbye, Captain.” - pg. 115. This quote really defines Montag to me, because he started out as a firefighter whose only wish was to burn down books, but now his only wish was to burn down the captain. It’s a great example of how people change over time, and their views on certain topics change with them. We see that Montag’s change has fully completed when towards the end of the book, he jumps into a river, strips himself of his old persona, and gets out of the river on the other side as an entirely new Montag. He sees men huddled around a fire, and thinks of the fire not to be burning and destroying, but warming and