Fahrenheit 451 Montag's Character Development

Montag was riding a mix match of feelings about the government and books throughout the novel. He went through so much heat in the novel, with him being a fireman and having to deal with what he had felt for books was hard. He had to make sure he didn’t get caught for what he was doing. The complexness of Montag’s character development is a long and weird cycle. Montag starts off as a fireman that feels the same way as every other fireman does about books. They absolutely hate them with pretty much every bone in their body. A lot of his hate for the books has to do with his crazy wife Mildred who also doesn’t have very strong feelings for books. Although he absolutely hated to even think about books, his feelings for them start to change. He begins to question himself and what he’s doing and what’s going on with society today in the novel. He then realizes that what he’s been doing for a living is wrong. …show more content…
As he was doing what he had always done which were burn people’s houses for having books in them. He realized something while burning down this specific house, this poor old lady was actually willing to die for her books as he watched her literally sit there and burn with all of her books. This had Montag thinking, he would end up taking one of the books, he couldn’t control himself when he was taking it as he quoted in the novel. This would end up in him contacting an old English professor named Faber. Faber would also help give him a better view on