Character+Analysis

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The story effectivly starts after a 17 year old girl asks him, "are you happy?" making him wonder if anyone is and if it's because of the loss of the books.
 * Guy Montag:** Protagonist. Starts out burning books, then people, then Bacon, cities, and himself (on the inside)


 * Beatty:** Antagonist. Foil to Montag. Used to love books but made it his quest in life to burn them apparently they left him empty inside. Keeps a library in his house but never reads the books in it. Lets Montag torch him. Sad.

"It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think" (27)
 * Mechanical Hounds:** In the book, there are three mechanical hounds mentiond. They all are more like spiders than an actual dog and are made to simply incapacitate criminals. Major foreshadowing when Montag says of the first one, "it doesn't like me," and Beatty responds with a story of how someone in another fire house was attacked by their hound.


 * Faber:** Supporting Character. Foil to Montag. Where Montag is hotheaded (Hah!) and new to thinking, Faber once did it for a living. A self-profused coward, he is often the voice of reason to Montag's Firey rebellion. (just like a conscience, only he actually exists)


 * Clarisse:** Supporting Character. Foil to Montag. Clarisse lived more in her <20 years than Montag probably ever will. She effectively starts the story by asking him "Are you Happy?" Which sends Montag into a psychiatrist's dream.


 * Mildred:** Montag's Wife. The bubble-headed personification of society's incarnation in the novel. Just like society, she understands deep, //deep// down inside that their life sucks, but she's programmed to not be able to think about it.


 * Housewives:** Even worse than Mildred. Unlike her, they never got it, even on a subconcious level. Also Sad.


 * Refugees:** Scholars and Philosiphers lost to society. They provide hope for Montag and society by remembering great works of literature and hope to form the bedrock of a society that eventually //won't// cause it's own demise. Good luck guys.


 * Deer:** In the entire story there is one single animal that Montag sees, meets, or hears about, seeing as the mechanical hound is indeed a man-made machine it doesn't count. But for one single, glorious, animal kingdom moment, Guy sees a deer in the woods before it runs off and is no more........