Mildred Montag is the not-so-loving wife of Guy Montag, and the epitome of the average person in society. She’s obsessed with technology to the point where it’s unhealthy constantly watching television, and when she’s not, she has her earphones (“seashells”) in, listening to the radio. Her time is mostly spent in the “parlour”, a room filled with three wall-sized television screens. In fact, Mildred spends so much of her time in the parlour, utterly mesmerized by her TV screens, that she affectionately calls the characters in her shows her family. Mildred even goes as far as to defend the characters on the televisions, defensively saying “That’s my family.” When Montag asks her to “Shut the parlor off”. This tells the reader just how much
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Mildred is so obsessed with technology that she not only believes the people on her shows are family, but the distraction of technology in her life has almost killed her. When Montag finds Mildred in bed with an empty bottle of pills on the floor, the reader quickly assumes that Mildred is so unhappy with her life and the present state of the society she lives in, that she attempts to commit suicide. But, as Montag suspects when he says “Maybe you took two pills and forgot and took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you.” (Bradbury, 49), Mildred has just been so immersed in her technological habits, and so unaware of the real world around her, that she has no thought as to how many pills she kept taking. Additionally, After Montag calls 911, men come and insert snake-like objects into her to clean her blood. Montag notes how “Nobody knows …show more content…
Strangers come and violate you.” demonstrating how as the complexity of technology in society grows, people interact less and less. Though, we can't entirely blame Mildred for her obsession with technology. She has to be thought about as somebody with an addiction, for that's what she has. She was born into society; who she is is how she was raised and what the world taught her to be. Nevertheless, Mildred is the character who Bradbury uses to showcase how he thinks technology will make people
Mildred is so obsessed with technology that she not only believes the people on her shows are family, but the distraction of technology in her life has almost killed her. When Montag finds Mildred in bed with an empty bottle of pills on the floor, the reader quickly assumes that Mildred is so unhappy with her life and the present state of the society she lives in, that she attempts to commit suicide. But, as Montag suspects when he says “Maybe you took two pills and forgot and took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you.” (Bradbury, 49), Mildred has just been so immersed in her technological habits, and so unaware of the real world around her, that she has no thought as to how many pills she kept taking. Additionally, After Montag calls 911, men come and insert snake-like objects into her to clean her blood. Montag notes how “Nobody knows …show more content…
Strangers come and violate you.” demonstrating how as the complexity of technology in society grows, people interact less and less. Though, we can't entirely blame Mildred for her obsession with technology. She has to be thought about as somebody with an addiction, for that's what she has. She was born into society; who she is is how she was raised and what the world taught her to be. Nevertheless, Mildred is the character who Bradbury uses to showcase how he thinks technology will make people