In addition, I found Mrs. Bowles’s response to Mrs. Phelps’s reaction to the poem Montag recited unfortunate for a few reasons. To begin with, Mrs. Bowles felt that Mrs. Phelps’s crying was a sign of being affected negatively and she thought it was wrong for emotions to have been exposed. The truth, however, is that poetry is sometimes supposed to bring out feelings, and I felt sorry that Mrs. Bowles could not envision that. Secondly, because she was so caught up with the legality of the poetry book, she could not recognize the meaning of the poem. Mrs. Phelps, on the other hand, cried most likely because she understood the poem and how emotional it was. This I appreciated because it meant that now someone finally related to Montag, but it
