Characterization

Guy Montag

• “It was a pleasure to burn.” It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.”

• “You like bowling don’t you Montag ”Bowling, yes.” ”And golf.” “Golf is a fine sport.”

• Revealing the character’s thoughts.

• Letting character speak.

Mildred Montag• pg.52 “Her hair

burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.”

• Physical traits

Captain Beatty• Pg.38 “Once upon a time!” Beatty

said. What kind of talk is that?”• Pg.42 “You can’t ever have my

books,” she said” You know the law,” said Beatty…

• Pg.121 There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that they pass me as an idle wind, which I respect not! How’s that? Go ahead now, you second-hand litterateur, pull the trigger.

• Character’s thoughts and beliefs.

• Character’s thoughts and loyalty towards the law.

• Character’s thoughts about, perhaps his favorite book.

Professor Faber• Looking very old

in the light and very fragile.”

• “There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white.”

• “His eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there.”

• Physical traits/ appearance: he looks old and fragile.

• Physical traits/ appearance: his skin is white.

• Physical traits/ appearance: his eyes are a faded white and blue.

Granger• Pg.148 “We’re used to that.

We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn’t be here.”

• Pg.152 I struck a fireman when he came to burn my library years ago. I’ve been running ever since.

• Five old men sitting there dressed in the dark-blue denim pants and jackets and dark blue shirts.

• Letting the character speak.

• Thoughts of his mistake.• Physical trait/ appearance:

their clothes.