Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

On page 106, "I can't do it, he thought. How can I go at this new assignment, how can I go on burning things? i can't go in this place." What exactly does montag realize about his job and what he is doing?

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Montag is having a crisis of intellect and spirit. Clarisse has given him a second life: a re-birth. He now sees his job as destroying wisdom and beauty. His job perpetuates ignorance like he sees in Mildred and her friends.