Mildred is a great example of the allegory of the cave, as well as one of the model citizens in the novel. She is one of the most ignorant characters readers see. She considered the characters in her TV show to be her real family, she believed that they were more important to her than her relationship with her husband, Guy Montag. She was willing to spend a very large amount of their income for a fourth television or parlour wall, when they had just got the third screen roughly one month before. Mildred’s overdose on her sleeping pills (p. 13-16) shows how deep she seems be in the cave, as the men who came to filter the toxicity of the pills out of her stomach and blood had said that they get nearly 10 calls every day about people overdosing
