After Montag witnesses a woman commit suicide by refusing to leave her books while the firemen burn her alive, he begins to question his occupation and has serious thoughts about quitting his job. However, Mildred doesn't understand the traumatic event that Montag has just witnessed and urges him to go to work. Montag tells Mildred that there must be something in those books that make a person stay inside a burning house. He proceeds to...
After Montag witnesses a woman commit suicide by refusing to leave her books while the firemen burn her alive, he begins to question his occupation and has serious thoughts about quitting his job. However, Mildred doesn't understand the traumatic event that Montag has just witnessed and urges him to go to work. Montag tells Mildred that there must be something in those books that make a person stay inside a burning house. He proceeds to tell his wife that for the first time he realized that a man was behind each of the books that he burned. Montag says,
"It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over" (Bradbury 49).
Montag has become increasingly unhappy with his meaningless life and has begun to look at the world differently. Witnessing the woman commit suicide with her books has forced Montag to deeply examine his occupation. Montag feels guilty about burning so many books over the years and does not want to continue to destroy precious works of literature, which is why he gets "sick" and tries to avoid going into work.
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