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Mildred In Fahrenheit 451

I saw Mildred as nothing much more than a carbon copy.   She was a mockery of all things dull and the only thing she knew better then her ‘family’ was to blend in with every walking, talking, breathing robot.   She knows nothing about change nor does it seem like she cares much about it either.   Mildred has a mind set that the world is perfect, that her world is perfect and even if she does see the terrible things around her, she doesn’t have the nerve or brain enough to stand up for what her very two eyes see.   She is full of shallowness and mediocrity.   She distracts herself from her own thoughts and throughout the book she is forever trying to meet up to the society’s perception of aesthetic, which she will never truly meet.   Mildred constantly has a seashell in her ear, distracting her from the reality around her, creating a new reality, with faster moving time and not enough seconds to smell any flowers along the way.   She is full of denial but only sees it as conforming to what everyone is in definition: the bugs being stepped on by their government.   She has bought into the values of her society; the same society that accepts suicide as the only option.   I never saw Mildred as a typical wife and through out the book we learn more and more about the darkest parts of her. She reveals to Montag that “some nights, she takes the car out into the countryside and drives all night -- hitting and killing rabbits, dogs, and other small animals -- in order make herself feel wonderful."   She seems like a beast and reveals herself to be nothing but a sell out, to herself and her husband.   I honestly don’t believe that a thing such as Mildred can truly love; her life is far too empty for that.   She has no memories from a better time and feels no need to backtrack even if just to find herself.
Mildred is never fully there, always away to a different world; to a different time. Her mind is just different, something is always missing, and when she talks it is like she is only...