Log Entry #10

Log Entry #10
Fahrenheit 451

Log Entry #10



The two women walked in, Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles, they came into the living and began to watch and stare with dead consumed eyes at the three walls. The White Clown appears, three White Cartoon Clowns, chopping each other's limbs off to the accompaniment of immense incoming tide of laughter. Montag turns off the walls and begins to talk to the three women. He starts off talking about the war; Mrs. Phelps said it's a quick war. Quick War. She's not worried for  her husband; he told her to not cry and go off to marry someone else. The soldiers in war never die from war, but from jumping of buildings. And it's always someone else's husband who dies. Next Topic was children. Mrs. Phelps shrieks and says that no one in his right mind would have children. Mrs, Bowles had children, two of them. In response Mrs. Phelps said, "Caesarians or not, children are ruinous; you're out of your mind." "It's like washing clothes: stuff laundry in and slam the lid." I figure form that, that they ,who has children, don't really care for them at all. When the talk focuses next on politics the women cheered on and said they voted for President Noble. Their reason are like the sterotypical thoughts teenage girls would have today about men, "One of the nicest-looking men ever became president." They began to negatively talk about the running candidate, I quote, the fat one who picked his nose. Montag became fed up with this and ran grabbed a book and after some time read a poem to them with Mildred's help. Mrs. Phelps began to cry and Mrs. Bowles called Montag nasty as she said poetry is all tears and suicide.  

DOVER BEACH: Montag is prompted to show them the extent of their callousness, how deadened they are to emotion and beauty. So, he busts out poetry-the language of the profundity of life. 

CALLOUSNESS- insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic: