https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623 Introduce a quote describing Mildred Montag. Follow it with a brief analysis of the quote. en-us 2016-10-11 15:30:12 UTC 2016-10-13 14:31:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854026 After Montag confronts his wife, Mildred, about her overdose, they start talking about her passion of theater and acting. She desperately wants to have a fourth wall, and even though it costs 1/3 of Montag's salary, she nonchalantly says that "It's only two thousand dollars...And I should think you'd consider me sometimes. If we had a fourth wall, why it'd be just like this room wasn't ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people's rooms. We could do without a few things," (Bradbury 20-21). Through her claim of wanting more, Mildred depicts how she sees her life as being boring and plain. She wants to experience the luxury that others do, and puts her own needs of belonging above that of her family's. The need to belong is one of the most basic needs of a human. What Mildred doesn't recognize however is that that need isn't above the needs of safety, hunger, and a shelter. In a society where most people have most a lot of "basic" needs, it's easy to take what you have for granted. Beyond this, her distaste for her current life supports the fact of why she would choose to eat all of her sleeping pills and essentially commit suicide.]]> 2016-10-11 15:33:13 UTC https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854026 https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854151 Prior to turning on the lights Montag can already sense what awaits: "His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable"(Bradbury 12). Montag describes Mildred as a lifeless being who lacks personality and warmth. Every night he comes home and expects her to be lying there , detached from the world, unaware, eyes glued to the ceiling. 
This portrays Mildred as disconnected, unemotional, and aloof. Although she is unconscious, Montag describes her prior to entering the room. This indicates that Mildred is normally unaware and detached from the world around her. ]]> 2016-10-11 15:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854151 https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854282 When Montag talks to his wife about her overdoes, Montag says that "you took all the pills in your bottle last night." "Oh, I wouldn't do that," she said surprised. "The Bottle was empty." "I wouldn't do a thing like that. Why would I do a thing like that?" she said." Mildred when told about her overdose still denies the legitimacy of her husband's statement even though Montag said that her bottle of pills were empty. This shows that Mildred is stubborn because she refuses Montag's claim even with evidence that it is true.]]> 2016-10-11 15:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854282 https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854913 When Montag enters his bedroom, just before he discovers that his wife had fallen ill, he describes the Seashell devices that his wife uses, and her behavior with them in.
BLEND QUOTE"And in her ears the little Seashells...an electronic ocean of sound... coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. The waves came in and bore her off...There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea..." (Bradbury 23. His statement that the room was indeed empty indicates how insignificant his wife's presence is in reality - she is fully immersed in her own world made possible by her Seashells. Disconnected from the outside world, her personality can be described as dull, mundane, and distant.]]> 2016-10-11 15:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854913 https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854942 In the dim light of his igniter's flame, Montag finds his wife motionless in her bed, staring lifelessly up at him. "There was only the singing of the thimble-wasps in her tamped-shut ears, and her eyes all glass, and breath going in and out, softly, faintly, in and out her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went, went or came" (Bradbury 13). Bradbury's description of Mildred is the first description of her appearance. He describes her as lifeless and detached, not caring about the world around her. While she is unconscious at the time, it can also be applied to Mildred's character: she is oblivious and detached to the world except for her Seashells, which keep her in between reality and fiction. Her ears are "tamped-shut" and closed off to everything but the sounds of the Seashells.  She is Comfortably Numb, to borrow a phrase from Pink Floyd.]]> 2016-10-11 15:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854942 https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854980 When Montag enters Mildred's room, he he describes her "stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable" (Bradbury 12). Mildred is depicted as a lifeless and miserable person who shows no human emotion. This affects Montag, too, as he comes home from work every night feeling unhappy and troubled, expecting Mildred to be laying in bed motionless.]]> 2016-10-11 15:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129854980 https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129855413 As Montag enters the room, he sees Mildred. He sees and hears only "singing of thimble-wasps in her tamped-shut ears, and her eyes all glass, and breath going in and out, softly, faintly, in and out her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went or went or came" (Bradbury 13).  This portrays that Mildred is emotionless and not together or connected with the outer world. Montag doesn't see or feel joy coming home to his wife, he just sees an almost lifeless and miserable person. ]]> 2016-10-11 15:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/esoder/qyveivmdg623/wish/129855413