As Montag watched Beatty leave and drive down the street he noticed the houses with their flat fronts. He then began to remember what Clarisse told him about what her uncle said about the flat fronted houses. She said “No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn’t want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over. My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn’t look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn’t want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches (Bradbury, 63).” To me this is the reason why people miss the important events and details in life. This is the reason why everyone is to themselves. They don’t socialize like we do in our time frame. Clarisse goes on to say that they also got rid of gardens because people sat around in them and the rocking chairs because they were too comfortable. In this book, the government seems to really over analyze things to where it is hard to make sense of. The changes that they made do not make any sense at all. 
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