Fahrenheit 451-Mildred and Betty

Since Mildred and Betty would be considered major characters by many people I decided they deserved a blog analysis too. Since they didn't play a huge role in the book I found that it might be easier to put them on the same blog yet different paragraphs neither pertaining to the other in order to make up my amount of words I had to.

Mildred was the wife of Montag, who called the police and turned him in. She had had enough of his nonsense and just wanted to get back to watching her three walled television set. She was addicted to the thing and kept on begging Montag if they could get the fourth. She would ask him every night and every night he would explain that they just got the third and its extremely expensive. Then she would say something like, "we can go without a few things." After that Montag would have to explain to his persistent yet annoying wife that they already are and that he doesn't plan on getting a fourth television wall anytime soon. Although Montag didn't like the television I found it a clever idea and thought that it would be cool to have one sometime.

Betty was the fire marshal at the fire department where Montag worked. He would continuously harass Montag, who was scared of the Hound saying it tried to attack him the other day. Betty would insist he is imagining things. Betty would also try to brain wash anything Montag had once learned and explain that books are no fun, and are just a waste of time. Betty wasn't the only one that would say this for the entire community thought the same including the government which is why they made books illegal and invented firemen, to start all the fires to burn the books. Towards the beginning of the book I found it interesting that they would use firemen to start fires instead of put them out.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.