Characters
She asks Montag if he is happy, triggering his self-reflection.
Clarisse McClellan
What question does Clarisse ask Montag on their first night walking home.
Are you happy?
What does it mean whenMontag sees himself reflected in Clarisse’s eyes?
Self-reflection
These devices Mildred wears in her ears provide constant distraction.
Seashell radios
“Kerosene is nothing but perfume to me.”
Montag
This character denies her own suicide attempt the next morning.
Mildred
What event in Montag’s home reveals the despair of the society around him?
Mildred's suicide attempt
The salamander represents this mythological trait.
Being able to be in a fire without being burned. (Firemen)
This is whom Beatty blames for the banning of books.
Society / the people
“I’ve got to go see my psychiatrist now… He says I’m a regular onion!”
Clarisse
He is a fire chief who is well-read but bitter toward books.
Captain Beatty
What dangerous question does Guy ask during a card game at the fire station?
Were firemen ever used to put out fires?
Bradbury uses this type of imagery when describing Clarisse to show she is natural, pure, and alive.
nature imagery
According to Beatty, this societal change made books shorter, simpler, and ultimately banned.
The desire for speed, pleasure, and avoiding offense
“Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.”
Captain Beatty
This robotic creature symbolizes the dehumanizing danger of technology
The mechanical hound
What memory about a candle reveals Montag’s longing for warmth and connection?
The memory about using candles during a power outage when he was a child.
Montag’s dark, cold bedroom symbolizes this about Mildred.
Her emotional emptiness and disconnection
The Mechanical Hound has this deadly feature built into its nose.
A morphine/procaine-injecting needle
“She’s nothing to me… She shouldn’t have had books.”
Mildred
She dies in a burning house rather than give up her books, deeply affecting Montag
The old woman / the book martyr
Montag realizes he would feel this if Mildred died
Montag describes Clarisse as a candle and a mirror. How does this characterize her?
She is a symbol of light and truth for Montag.
Montag sees Mildred’s “family” living inside this, which represents shallow, artificial entertainment.
“There must be something in books… You don’t stay for nothing.”
Montag