Fahrenheit 451 Psychological Analysis Essay

Martin Bastidas
Professor Tirado
ENG 110
12 October 2014
A Psychological Approach to Mildred In the story “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury it clearly shows that Mildred the wife of the main character, Guy Montag, has different psychological problems. Mildred in the story isn’t happy with her life. You can find her in her house all day in front of the television instead of getting up and going to work like most people in society. She doesn’t care about her marriage and never shows any love or care for her husband. She cares more about technology than him. In addition, Mildred is addicted to prescription drugs. Mildred is living in denial and her actions demonstrate that she is a selfish and self-destructive individual. When you’re

Mildred clearly shows she is selfish by showing this type of behavior. She does not care about her husband at all. She only cares about make believe characters in television shows. All she cares about is about buying herself the newest technology. For example, she bugs her husband for another television when they already have three. They cannot afford it because it cost almost all of Guys salary. This puts a burden on Guy and must decide whether to buy it or not. Mildred is never satisfied of what Guy has to offer for her and is only worried about having more things. She only talks to him about the television shows and nothing else unless it has to do with him getting her more things. Overall, Mildred is only concerned with what Guy can buy her then rather caring about him and their marriage. In the story books are illegal, so when Mildred discovers her husband owning and reading books she betrays him. She reports him to the fire station. Once
Mildred reports him, she runs away from him because she doesn’t care about her own husband and only cares about herself. Many of these actions display Mildred as a selfish individual in

In the story Mildred defiantly shows this behavior. Mildred is empty and mindless; she is just lost in technology. She doesn’t value her life because she tries to commit suicide. In the beginning of the story her husband gets home to her overdosed on sleeping pills. The story says “The small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare” (Bradbury 11).
Her willing to kill herself just shows that she doesn’t value her life and is willing to die anytime.
In reality Mildred is addicted to sleeping pills because this was not the first time it had happened.
It had happened several times in the story which kind of shows that Mildred isn’t really doing it to commit suicide. She is doing it because she has an addiction to the pills and drinks nearly so much of them that she literally is killing herself and doesn’t care if she dies or not. Also, when her husband tries to help her and explain to her what she had done she didn’t want to hear it..
This shows that she is ignorant and does not care about her bad behavior. A person who