Major Characters:
~Guy Montag: Guy Montag is a 30 year old fire fighter that lives in America's future. He is generally an unhappy person that is "missing something" in his life. He is mildly depressed and is apathetic towards his everyday life and work. As for his appearance, he is your average Caucasian that is physically fit. Montag lacks in knowledge, although by his peers, he is viewed as average. He is married to Mildred. And he is a fire fighter that creates fires by burning books, buildings, people, and anything else that has to do with knowledge.
" To learn how to find, one must first learn how to hide."
~ Guy Montag
~Mildred: Mildred is Guy Montag's wife. She is clinically depressed and spends most of her days watching soap operas. She is a very serious person when it comes to her soap operas. She even goes to the point where she calls them her "relatives" and shows emotion to them.
" What a strange irony, that people will not read a book that espouses the importance of books in our society."
~ Mildred Montag pg.42
~Clarisse McClellan: Clarisse McClellan is an unusual 17 year old girl that is neighbors with Guy Montag. Clarisse asks a ton of questions and thinks about things in life. She is very interested in life and sees the sun rising as something spectacular. She is considered anti-social because she is social and thinks unlike the community.
" I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows."
~ Clarisse McClellan
~Captian Beatty: Captain Beatty is Montag's boss as well as the captian for the firemen. He is close with Montag, but too close for their own good. Being really close friends will not get them far in their careers. Their friendship will become rough and unhealthy.
" With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar."
~ Captian Beatty
~Faber: Faber is a retired English professor that plays an important role in Montag's plan to destroy the firemen's houses. He is someone that Montag met at a park a year ago who knew about books and knew what they ment. He also had plenty of books filled with knowledge from the past. Wen Montag's house burnt down Faber was there to help Montag even though he risked being caught and killed by the police.
" I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and I know I'm alive."
~ Faber
~ Faber
~Granger: One of the intelligent homeless men Montag meets after escaping from the city. He explains to Montag about their plan to build up society the right way after it has destroyed itself; and insure that no such government will ever exist again. All of the men are outlaws, each retaining text from books in their memory and passages from famous intellectuals like Abe Lincoln, Einstein, Charles Darwin, Gandhi, and passages by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Granger is Plato's Republic and wrote The Fingers in the Glove; the Proper Relationship Between the Individual and Society.
"We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn't be here." ~Granger
Minor Characters:
~Machine Operators: Two medical technicians sent by the hospital to revive Mildred after her failed attempt at suicide. They were both smoking during the "procedure" of taking out the poisons in her body and replacing her blood with artificial serum, and were both very impersonal, unattached men. They are so accustomed to these events they take no empathy to Montag's worries about his wife's life, and talk in a very insensitive manner.
"No use getting the stomach if you don't clean the blood. Leave that stuff in the blood and the blood hits the brain like a mallet, bang, a couple thousand times and the brain just gives up, just quits." ~ operator
"No use getting the stomach if you don't clean the blood. Leave that stuff in the blood and the blood hits the brain like a mallet, bang, a couple thousand times and the brain just gives up, just quits." ~ operator