Guy Montag is the main character of Fahrenheit 451. He is the protagonist. Montag is a fireman in the twenty fourth century. Instead of putting out fires and he creates them. More specifically, he creates fires to burn books. His society does not like books because they are all different. His society is all about being the same. They want everyone to be the same, but if someone reads a book they may have different thoughts then everyone else.
At the beginning of the novel Montag meets a seventeen year old girl named Clarisse. She opens his eyes to a whole new world. Clarisse introduces nature and reading to Montag. Soon, Montag finds himself stealing books from fires. He does not really know what to do with them though. He blames his hands for acting on their own. He says his hands stole the books, not him.
Montag becomes overwelmingly curious about the books, so he soon starts to try and read them. He makes his wife Mildred read them with him. Montag is looking for some kind of hidden meaning in the books.
Montag is a somewhat stupid man. He is pretty vain, and because he is a firefighter, (they are really looked up to in his time because they entertain the people by burning books and houses) he thinks he is all that. Although Montag sees that their may be a different meaning to life, he is too stupid to figure out what it is. He goes to his friend Professor Faber for help. Faber give him an earpiece and talks to him through it. That was a pretty dumb idea too.
Montag does a lot of dumb things. First off, he should not have shown anyone that he had books. Not even his wife. (His wife did find one of his books though.) He definitely should not have tried to talk to his wife's friends, and he should not have read to them from a poetry book.
Guy Montag believed that his hands did all of his dirty work. He was unconcious to it all. His hands stole the books, and his hands killed his chief, Beatty. Even towards the end of the novel, Guy Montag still liked the feeling of burning down a house, and he was burning his own house. I personally think Guy Montag is just a crazy man who really needs some help.
interesting observations
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