The lack of social interaction due to technology, leads to the inability of a common citizen to hold a polite and non awkward conversation with an unfamiliar person. Montag meets many new people throughout the course of the book. The new people bring out different and unfamiliar, scary emotions and ideas in Montag. Montag meets the curiosity of Clarisse, which sets off the rest of the story, “You laugh when I haven’t said anything funny [...] you never stop to think what I ask you” (6). The conversations that are seen as normal in the bleak, future America originate in repetitive and written out wall conversations. When Montag runs into Clarisse, her spontaneous interactions and conversations appear startling and strange to the fireman.
