And just like Montag, he took action — he read, rules be damned. So what in the world makes him different from Montag? Hold that thought for a paragraph or so. What makes Beatty such a powerful force in this novel is that, actually, he makes a decent point in his anti-book ravings. Literature is contradictory. It is confusing. It is treacherous, it will mix you up, it will force you to answer questions you never wanted to ask, and it will quite often pull the rug out from under your feet.
This, of course, is the reason books were abolished in the first place — not for the information they held, but for the dissent they caused amongst their readers. So Beatty is right to argue that books are contradictory. But he misses the point. As they exit, the house goes up in flames with the woman and books inside. The women effectively becomes a martyr for her belief and presents much courage. He feels that he is responsible for protecting from the destruction of the books.
Montag feels threatened by the fact that Beatty is destroying the books and that he is teasing him. This hits Montag like a brick wall, he has a cloud of guilt and responsibility comes over him telling him not to burn down the house, the old woman and especially the books. Before that occurred, when an old woman was reported, the firemen rushed to her house. After a while, when the firemen burn her books, she committed suicide by burning herself alive, so she will be able to be with her books.
When the woman lights herself on fire, she lit a fire inside Montag because she is fully aware that Montag might be so consumed with finding what is in the books, it will cause Montag to be more curious about what was in the book, that can cause a woman to commit suicide. Clarisse shows him a world of many possibilities and most importantly a world of great knowledge.
His skepticism turned to reality when he witnessed an old women die for her books. As Montag struggles to try and get his two worlds to coexist, his captain begins to see signs of uncertainty in Montag.
What do the books say? When Montag escapes the city and the police, he finds a group of other people who went through a similar experience as Montag. He shows him that they need not only books but also the freedom to read them and the freedom to act upon them. He witnesses his wife leaving, the burning of his house, and he sets Captain Beatty on fire.
He goes on the lam and finds Faber. The plot continues as Montag realizes his wife has become a victim and is mesmerized by society and the messages she receives from television.
She is a very down person always Montag feel badly about himself. One night she overdoses on sleeping tablets and Montag starts to see that she is slipping away from him.
He is so confused because she tries to ignore it ever happened. The storm. After this incident he looks at Mildred in a different light. He sees her as this whole other person that he does not even know. She blocks everything and everyone out around her and lives within the show. The third and final personal influence on Montag that I have chose is Beatty.
Beatty is the chief of firemen and he is very knowledgeable. He finds out that Montag has books and that is when the whole climax begins. Beatty is an unintentional influence, meaning he has no idea that he is changing Montag. He pushes and pushes Montag to his limits and Montag rebels. What do the books say, he wonders. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh? You come away lost.
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