Mildred's Change Analysis

It was revealed that Mildred and her friends are the people that reported Montag to the firemen. Earlier, Montag offended Mildred’s friends by reading a melachony poem that caused emotion. Mildred did not stay loyal to her husband and instead reports him to the government, abiding to society. The main rift in their relationship was that they are on opposite sides of society, Mildred is very devoted while Montag challenges the society standards. Deep down, she knows that if she is instead devoted to her husband then her life would go down the drain. She would lose everything including her ‘family’ and therefore has no hestiation in turning against

There is a difference between Mildred and Clarisse when they interact with Montag. When Montag and his wife have a conversation, it usually ends with Mildred being disinterested with what he is saying. It even makes Montag think “Well, wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Literally not just one wall but, so far three! And expensive, too! And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews…” (44). There seems to be no real connection between Montag and Mildred because she is busy watching the parlor walls. Whenever he tries to make an effort to talk to her, she seems to want to end the conversation as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, Clarisse and Montag’s conversation flows and continues. Ever since they met, the talks that they have had with each other always keeps them both intrigued. When Montag and Clarisse were discussing what he does for a living she could sense that something was wrong and just before

Mildred Montag is the prime example of a conformist in the dystopian society portrayed in Ray Bradbury 's book, Fahrenheit 451. She thinks in the simplistic manner that people like her are conditioned to, and she 's married to a fireman, who plays the largely important role of burning books in this society. She spends her days watching the television screens in the parlor and her nights with Seashell Radios buzzing in her ears. At first glance, her life of all play and no work might seem relaxing and blissful. However, it eventually comes to mind that all of her bliss is derived from her use of technology in order to escape from reality. Even then, it will become apparent that Mildred is not actually blind to reality and that her happy

A way that Mildred acts odd is by acting clueless about a certain topic that was brought up and seems to avoid talking about it more. At the very beginning of Fahrenheit 451, in the morning, Mildred walks into the kitchen feeling like she needs to eat some food. She cannot figure the reason why for her sudden hunger and keeps on muttering about it. Montag tries to remind her of getting her stomach pumped out from the amount of pills she took from a bottle and gulped them down. She interrupts him, “Didn’t sleep well. Feel terrible, God, I’m hungry. I can’t figure it… Did we have a wild party or something?” (19). Mildred is unaffected from two men going to their house the night before to get a few pills out of her system. She possibly knew what Montag was going to tell her, but she just kept stopping him mid-sentence to block out his explanation. Mildred kept the conversation from continuing, simply because she does not want to explain to Montag about the reason why she did what she did. Additionally, Montag attempts to tell Mildred again about the pills during their afternoon. This time Mildred acts surprised, denies she overdosed on pills, and treats the situation as a joke. Mildred states, “I wouldn’t do a thing like that… Heck, what would I want to go and do a silly thing like that for?” (19). Mildred clearly had a reason behind attempting suicide. She does not want to remember that moment, so she

Mildred is the wife of Montag. She has many different interests than Montag does which makes them foil characters. There is nothing very spectacular about Mildred. She is very bland and is obsessed with television. She believs that her family is the television shows. Montag on the other hand is appreciates books. Mildred says to Montag, “See what you are doing to us? You’ll ruin us!” (76). This quote shows that Mildred does not appreciate what Montag wants. She does not respect his interests and does not want to be married to someone who is doing illegal acts. Montag sees the books as a good thing and as an innspiration. Mildred sees them as

Montag’s Wife, Mildred, is a negative influence on him, trying to push him away emotionally and physically. She does not know who she really is and lives in an illusionary world with her obsession of television shows and believing they are real. He is so confused because she tries to ignore it ever happened thinking about all the bad things; “fire, sleeping tablets, men disposable tissue, coattails, blow, wad, flush...Rain. The storm. The uncle laughing...The whole world pouring down..." (19). After this incident he looks at Mildred in a different light and is someone who he can’t relate to. Another way she separates herself from Montag is through her "family", which is a television show. Montag constantly asks Millie “[if that] family loves [her]… love [her] with all their heart and soul" (83). Her world isn’t based in reality; they are clearly on different paths. Hers is one of illusion and his is becoming that of a totally self-aware person. She blocks everything and everyone out that is around her and lives within the show. Mildred opens Montag 's eyes to the real world and shows him that most people are uncaring and narcissistic.

Montag feels at the begining of the novel that the communication is greatly lacking in society. People are becoming very ignorant and turning reallife realationships aside. They now turn to their "tv families". One victim of neglecting real life realtionships is Mildred, Montag's wife. Montag truley hates this. "Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." (2.125). Montag hopes that his wife and him can rejoin their connection through the books, but is sadly wrong and must find some one else, Faber.

Mildred constantly shows Montag that she doesn’t care about him or what he does. She has no real connections in life and only cares about herself no matter what it costs other people. Technology rips away any real connections that Mildred has ever had with Montag to a point where she doesn’t even care about him. Mildred has succumb to technology and it has corrupted her life in such a way that her own husband no longer holds any emotional meaning to her anymore. In a horrifically shallow conversation between Mildred and Montag, Mildred says to Montag, “It's really fun. It'll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a wall-TV put in. It's only two thousand dollars.” (Bradbury 20). The conversation goes on and Montag replies with, “That’s one-third of my yearly pay. It’s only two thousand dollars, she replied. And I think you should consider me sometimes.” (Bradbury 20). Mildred talks about how she needs another parlour wall to improve her life. This conversation inspires the idea that Mildred only cares about herself and how she is oblivious she is to Montag’s emotions. The idea that Mildred, through technology, has become completely detached from her husband and that she doesn’t care about him. She only cares about the

Mildred copes with her dilemmas by not acknowledging her pain; her obsession with technology serves as her escape from the pressures of life. One example of this is when Montag finds Mildred overdosed on pills and has to call workers to revive her and replace her blood. The next morning when Montag tries to have a conversation with her about her suicide attempt he says, “You took all the pills in your bottle last night”. She replied, “Oh I wouldn’t do that” (Bradbury 17). Clearly, Mildred is going through a lot of pain if she would try to kill herself. But her reaction to what Montag says is short and dismissive, showing how she would rather be ignorant and “happy”

Montag and Mildred throughout the whole novel never really had a connecting relationship. Although they never really connected, Montag still had concerns for his wife. He shows this by the reaction of her suicidal overdose and trying to communicate with her. However, in part three of the novel Montag’s apathy for Mildred was almost fictional. By this point Mildred has betrayed Montag and his feeling toward her had forever changed.

In conclusion, Montag and Mildred is very different in not only one way it is way more than just one

I feel like sense Mildred wasn’t thinking straight when she called for the alarm. She was probably scared knowing that if someone else found out and they said that she also knew. That she would get in the same trouble Montag would get. She

Comment: This made Montag realize how separated Mildred is from the outside world. She is so caught up in her shows all day, everyday, that she has no idea what is really happening in reality.

Unlike Montag, who when discovered the truth about his life took actions to try to changed, Mildred like most of the people in the city takes the easy bath by running away and pretending that everything is as it should be. Although she betrays Montag by reporting about the book he hides in their home, Montag does not get angry with her as he realize that he has no emotion lift for her but pity over her self-destructive, and weak nature, and her remembers her as “My wife . . . poor Millie. I think of her hands but I don't see them doing anything at all. They just hang there at her sides or they lie there on her lap or there's a cigarette in them, but that's all.” (Bradbury,