Log Entry #2

Log Entry #2

Fahrenheit 451 

Log Entry #2

Mildred is Montag's wife...she is introduced first in the story as a drug addict(?), you could say. The book makes it seem like she is one since she is lying comatose in the bed resulting from taking forty pills. Sleeping pills to be exact. Furthermore Montag talks about Mildred as if he wants her out! He cares for her and all but, when the emergency medical guys come to pump her stomach and replace her blood, I quote, says this: "If only someone else's flesh and brain and memory. If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only..." In this quote it makes it seem he doesn't care for the wife he has...that he despises her to a point to wish that they, the 'doctors' replaced everything mental about her. 

Later, when she is put back in bed by Montag, it is revealed that it is two in the morning. That Clarisse's family is laughing so loud that Montag can hear it from his private quarters. He starts to think about it over and over again. "One Clarisse, Two Mildred, Three uncle. And repeat. He describes their conversation that he so clearly hears as a hypnotic web. And that he might even tap on their door and ask what their saying. He's slowly changing, from not even talking to strangers, beside the old man from the park and Clarisse, to wanting to know what they, strangers, are talking about! 

In the morning, after Montag wakes up, he found Mildred's empty bed. He looks in the kitchen and finds her eating, all the while she is questioning why she is soo hungry. We also find out, as the reader, that she is a expert at reading lips from ten years of apprenticeship at SeaShell ear thimbles and that still she is listening to her music. 

The only significant importance in these ten pages is that Mildred wants another wall, a fourth wall of television. That she acts by saying a missing line and Mildred makes it up as the other three walls film her. She complains to Montag that he never considers her sometimes, that a $2,000 fourth wall that is one third of his paycheck is a measly amount. The conclusion of these ten pages is that...we can start to see him change a little, more and more with each action he makes.