Hello.
I would like to start, though it is not required, by saying that I love this book. I had never read it before, but I find it absolutely amazing!
I am not really confused by anything in the book, though I see how one could be. The metaphors in the book are so rich, sometimes, by time you reach the end of them, you forget what the author was talking about. For example, I had to read the comparison of Clarisse’s face to a clock face twice, because the first time, I got to the end, and found that I had forgotten what he was comparing his intricate clock description to.
I have to say that I knew almost from the first moment that Guy Montag and his wife, Mildred were not on close terms from the moment she first entered on the scene, perhaps before. First, as he is walking home from a whole night out starting fires, he doesn’t think about his wife at all. Then, he gets home and the house is silent, he doesn’t call for his wife, he just looks at the vent in the ceiling where he seems to be hiding something (I’ll come back to that). The next clue was as he walked into the bedroom. He hears Mildred’s earphones and immediately frowns, “He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on it’s self like a tallow skin…(pg 12)” so obviously his wife’s preoccupation with her earphones, her “electrical…hidden wasp (pg 12)”, is not something that he is fond of. He says himself, before he finds the medicine bottle that he is actually unhappy, though he had been trying to convince himself that he was.
And then, of course, there is the conversation he has with Mildred. If nothing else proves their unhappiness, it is this. They way she talks to him and the way he feels while talking to her shows that there is obviously something wrong.
Now, as I promised, I have a theory about that air vent that I mentioned earlier. And before I take full credit for this, I would like to say that in the front of my book (and mine is a different copy) there is a small passage of the book that I read first and it is very revealing. I won’t say what it says here, because anyone can read this, but my theory is that he is hiding stolen books behind the vent in the ceiling. Along with the beginning passage in my book, he also responded to Clarisse’s question about whether he read the books in a very suspicious manner. So there is my theory.
Goodbye.
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Very well thought out. I am with you when you say i can see why some people get confused. I myself at first was very confused and had no idea what was going on, but i now somewhat have an understanding of what was going on. Actually it wasn't that i didn't know what was going on, it was more that i couldn't understand what the writing actually meant. It was like dark chocolate its good but you can only have so much. The text as you said was rich and i got overloaded at some points.
I also noticed the increadibly large amount of description that the author uses. In my opinion it is a little distracting from the actual story. While it is very interesting to hear the author ramble on for a page about a clockface, like you said, it can make you forget what he was talking about in the first place.
I'm glad to hear that you like the book !
Mr. J
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