Guy Montag represents a vision of American here there are no free thinkers. No people who spend time alone to read or think. A place where technology fills depression, love, every empty gap. Guy Montag lives in a world much like our own.
Even family is replaced by television. A popular program called “The Family” gives the viewer a spoon fed experience of what it is like to have an actual family. However The Family is not real. It is a superficial glance at what a family might be. although the television bradbury experienced was very different from the wall screens in Fahrenheit 451, television in the book is not all that different from television we experience today. People can get sucked in to it for many hours and not come out, go back to the same program, day after day.
In Fahrenheit 451 Montag’s wife is Vacant, Ignorant and obsessed with television. She has no love for Montag and see’s him only as a provider of money. This is the average person in Fahrenheit 451. Yet, Mildred is deeply unhappy. She’s severely bothered by the fact that her life is empty and filled with hours of mindless television. But in this world, it's Mildred’s job to be happy. In fact, it’s hard to say that anyone’s happy when they have no free will.
It is clear that even today we are close to this reality however, there are ways to avoid it. . we always try to overlook our problems and pretend that we can do no wrong but, to continue doing this is exactly what leads to Bradbury’s nightmarish vision of the future. But just as Motag stopped and thought about his life, so can we. We can break away from passive thinking and make our own choices and perhaps make a difference in which way we are going as a whole.
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