Even though Montag tells others that he left his wife back in the city and worries aloud that something must be wrong with him (because he does not miss her and would not be sad if she were killed), in retrospect, he probably did not want her to die.
When the bombs obliterate the city, Montag suddenly remembers that he met Mildred in Chicago, suggesting that he has somehow managed to feel the connection that was missing between them when she was alive.
Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, by Ray Bradbury. The novel describes a near-future society in which firemen don’t extinguish fires but instead burn books, and where the complacent populace, numbed by nonstop television and advertising, seem all too eager to embrace enforced ignorance.
In the news, Disney is making a new version of the classic Ray Bradbury thriller novel Something Wicked This Way Comes. Find out more here.
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