Farenheit 451: An Introduction

As I begin the story of Farenheit 451, I am baffled by all of the things that are so different from our lives today, yet are talked about as if they are a normal thing. In this novel, firefighters are not used to put out fires, but to start them. They are appointed to burn literature, in order to keep people happy. It is in fact, in order to shelter them from the reality of the world, leaving most of the characters obnoxious and blind to their own reality. It is interesting for me to see these behaviors, such as when Mildred, the main character, Guy's wife tries to kill herself with a bottle of sleeping pills, and then is completley against the idea that she would ever do anything like that the following day. Everything seems so bland in this book, with the three wall tvs and the seperate beds for guy and Mildred, despite their marraige. I am very interested to see what happens in this book, and to see if order is ever restored.