How Does Montag Change In Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury portrays how Montag likes to burn and change things with fire. Montag can be compared with fire in many ways. Fire to him is pleasure, power, warmth, and happiness. Throughout the book, Bradbury demonstrates how Montags’ personality mirrors fire. Montag felt good when working with fire he did not care about anything else. He felt pleasure seeing things deformed “It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.”(Page 3) Montag felt full of life and good about changing things with fire. He loved the adrenaline he felt when burning books with fire. He felt the warmth of the fire “Later going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark.”(Page4) instead of finding pleasure by being with his wife he found more pleasure in fire. He cared more about his job then his home and his spouse.
He felt regretful for working with fire “Montag’s hand closed like a mouth crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest.”(Page 37) Montag’s change of opinion on destroying books caused him to save one. He blamed his hands for his actions and pretended he had no control over them. Montag did not know what to do “He gazed, shaken, at the white hand. He held it way out, as if he were farsighted. He held it close, as if he were blind.”(page 38) Montag was trembling while he was trying to get the lady out of the house. He did not want to kill anybody else with