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Examples Of Guy Montag's Personality In Fahrenheit 451

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The story of a time when firemen created fires instead of putting them out. A time when people didn’t have personal connections anymore and when their true personalities were hidden. When books became illegal… In the book, Fahrenheit 451, a man named Guy Montag shows us that he is a complex man because of his growing curiosity, head-strong attitude, and his very intelligent mind.
Guy Montag shows his curiosity in multiple ways throughout the text. One instance he shows this quality is when he says, “ You weren’t there, you didn’t see,” he said. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing” (54-55). This makes his growing curiosity very apparent to the reader. He tells us how there has to be something deeper in books and how he wanted to know what it was. He wanted to feel what the woman felt, the love, the passion, for something that mattered. Montag has many different personality …show more content…

Montag says to Mildred, “Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be left alone. We need to be bothered once in awhile. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”(55-56). His head-strong attitude and stubbornness shine through with this quote. He wants people to get bothered, he wants them to have a reaction. If that is what he wants, he will stop at nothing to get that. He brings up controversial topics throughout the book just to get a reaction from people because he thinks that is what should happen for the world to be right. We wants to stand for something and wants everyone else to as well. Montag’s head-strong attitude is very important throughout the story with how he makes his decisions, but also his intelligence is what makes him aware of what is right and how he makes the

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