Summary Of Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

Fahrenheit 451

Guy Montag was a firefighter who loved doing his job. His job was to find books that were hidden in people’s homes and once they were discovered they would create the fire and burn all of them however, it was not just the books it was the homes as well that they would find the books in.

One night after work Guy Montag runs into a young lady named Clarisse who was a very optimistic and curious teenager about life, as she was walking home late in the evening. As both Guy Montag and Clarisse walk home she asks him series of questions that makes him rethinks and question his own life about his own happiness. Upon his arrival to his own he discovers his wife Mildred who lays lifeless across their bed due to an overdose. In panic he calls for help where they revive his wife. After the overdose incident Montag is not sure his marriage is worth saving.

The complaint was that their neighbors had a hidden stash of books in her home. As the firemen head over to the ladies home to set it on fire they come in to see that the lady rather commit suicide and set her own self on fire with her books instead of them. Montag eventually decides to secretly take a book when no one was watching and hide it. When he made it home he hid it under the pillow to look at it later.

Following after the woman suicide Montag question his wife Mildred on the whereabouts of Clarisse. His wife gave him the tragic news that Clarisse was hit and ran over by a car. Following the woman who let herself burn in the fire and the death of Clarisse, Montage begins to grow ill. He decides to stay home from work because of his illness and tries to confide in his wife about how he is not happy with his job anymore and ask her what her thoughts were about books. However, Millie will not entertain his thoughts because of her bias thoughts were books were unlawful and people who have books should be