Characters

  __Character Analysis: __

**Guy Montag:** Protaganist- Fireman who ironically starts fires, rather than putting them out. Thoroughly enjoys his cliche and routine lifestyle, lives as something of a hero. Realizes early in the novel that he has been blindly following society, and never quite understood the reasoning behind his actions. He quickly begins to question society in its entirety and furthermore rebels by keeping and reading forbidden novels. He becomes obsessed with a young but inspiring character named Clarisse who sparks his rebellious ways simply by not conforming.

**Mildred Montag:** Wife of Guy Montag. Living example of society's ability to ignore and refusal to correct conflicts of importance. She spends all of her time consumed in her "Parlor Walls", listening and acting in on a fake TV-like family, to whom she is closer than to her own husband. She does not work and is willing to go without certain necessities in order to enhance her Parlor family life. She does not understand anything real or meaningful because not only is she careless of the outside world, she has gone so far as to turn a blind eye and practically forget that there is a life outside her own four walls. Suicidal, yet completely in denial. Unhappy with her life, yet unable to face it.

**Captain Beatty:** A confusing and contradictory character. He seems to have once adored novel's yet tries to do right with society, and thus had become a fireman. Understands, perhaps greater than anyone, that his current life is not only boring and cruel, yet is willing to go about it due to it simplicity. Consistantly manipulates and befuddles Montag in his own confusion of wrong and write. Unwilling to fight his own death.

**Faber:** A character vastly similar to Captain Beatty in his attempt to convince and control Montag. While his intentions seem slighltly more positive than Beatty's, he too is hesitant in rebellion. While something of a rolemodel to Montag; he proves more cowardice.

**Clarisse:** A young girl who has frequent encounters with Montag, and thus sets off a whole new way of thinking for him. She is considered a rebel, and frowned upon, merely because she enjoys non violent, and lengthy enjoyable aspects of life. She has more wisdom and insight than any other character in the novel because she foils all other characters. She marks what is right and expected in society, even if it requires being shut out and/or isolated. Her exsistance creates the motif for the entire novel as she keeps Montag on his toes by questioning simple yet curious aspects. She brings about the reality that firemen were once exact opposite in their actions, putting out fires and not starting them.