2. One of the biggest conflicts in this book is Montag’s conflict with himself. When Guy meets Clarisse his starts to change, he wonders why this girl is so strange. Then Clarisse asks him if he is happy. I think this is the first spark in the fire for Montag. At first he plays it off as if it is nothing. Guy kids himself into thinking he is happy. Thinking he is happy with his life. Then Clarisse shows him the dandelion trick to see if he was in love. It showed he was not. He was angry with her, but as he began to think about it he realized that he was not sure if he loved his wife. He began to notice that he was just going through the motions of life. Clarisse started to change him. She asked Guy questions that made him think. Wondering why she was so happy, yet she was so different. He enjoyed her company, he enjoyed talking to her and listening to what she had to say. All the time she talked Guy listened. He started to think. He realized how unhappy he was with his life. He wanted to find a meaning to what he was doing. And the only way he could think of was to read a book and see what it was all about. The conflict I am talking about is should Guy Montag tell anyone how he was feeling. He was afraid to tell the firemen for fear of what they would do. He felt he did not have a good enough relationship to tell his wife. Guy Montag was struggling with himself. Should he venture off into the unknown world of reading books, or should he just forget it and play it safe and go back to work like nothing had ever happened. The real question is did he want to be happy and a fugitive, or did he want to go on being unhappy and safe?
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