Guy Montag

In the post-apocalyptic world Fahrenheit 451 takes place Guy Montag is seemingly perfect. He is a strong fireman, having the uniform dark features such as "black hair, black brows…fiery face, and…blue-steel shaved but unshaved look."
Guy loves his job as the incendiary of knowledge which ironically gives him the opportunity to drain his collapsing world the only chance it has to regain intellectuality and stay afloat. He is officiated by every aspect of being a fireman such as the smell of kerosene, every one's fear of him, and
letting small animals loose and betting on which ones the Mechanical Hound would annihilate first. However, as the book progresses his seemingly ideal mental state seems to undergo a metamorphosis after meeting the neighbor girl, Sara McClellan. While every house is filled with darkness and every person with fright, she and her family seem to be a surviving anomaly. Her house is bright with light and her heart lacks fear. She and Guy have the first intuitive conversation in his life that makes him open his eyes and see his world for the first time. He sees his terrible, suicidal marriage for what it is, he questions his job, and he questions society. The girl's death places guy on a quest what he has spent years destroying, knowledge. Guy chases this until he arrives at a paradox, the fireman begins to read. He realizes individuality and his soul is worth breaking the shackles of stupidity by which conformity has bound him like many other heroes of literature.