“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They might just stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! I don’t hear those idiot bastards in your parlor talking about it. God Millie, don’t you see?” Said Montag on page 74. Montag is one of the few people in their society that realizes what is going on, I think what Bradbury is trying to say here is that there are still some people in our world that want to push for more. These people may try to get the others who are settled in comfort to grow but truly it is down to the people themselves.
A man yells at a woman in this image like Montag was yelling at Mildred:
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