“Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning.’ He suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable. ‘And if you look’- she nodded at the sky- ‘there’s a man in the moon.’ He hadn’t looked for a long time.” Clarisse is being a catalyst towards Montag in this passage by trying to get him to really think. It is interesting because instead of telling them to think like we catch Montag doing with Mildred she subtly urges him to think without literally telling him to.
This picture represents how effective Montag’s method of trying to get Mildred to think:
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