I believe that one of Montag’s biggest mistake occurred in these next few pages. Mildred had two of her friends over the night he went to Faber’s house. When Montag got home he decided to read Mildred’s two friends a piece poetry out of one of the books he had stolen in the past year. Mildred is appalled by his actions and tries to cover him up by saying “Ladies, once a year every fireman’s allowed to bring one book home, from the old days, to show his family how silly it all was, how crazy. Guy’s surprise tonight is to read you one sample to show how mixed-up things were, so none of us will ever have to bother our little old heads about that junk again, isn’t that right, darling (Bradbury, 99)?” Montag then clutched the book with his fists and responded with a yes. The piece of poetry made Mrs. Phelps, one of Mildred’s friends, cry. This left Mrs. Bowles, the other friend, disgusted with Montag. Her response was “Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words. Why do people want to hurt people? Not enough hurt in the world, you got to tease people with stuff like that (Bradbury, 101)!” Both of Mildred’s friends left immediately. Montag should have never revealed the secret of the books he had to Mildred’s friends if he wasn’t sure on whether he could trust them. I’m thinking that they will turn him in since they were so upset about the poetry.
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