I characterized Clarisse McClellan from Fahrenheit 451. Her
role in the story is to put things into perspective for the main character, Guy
Montag. She has a very free spirited
personality yet grounded in a way that the other characters are not. When I tried to visualize what this 17-year
old girl looked like, I imagined a thin pale-skinned girl with long wavy hair, huge
eyes, a slender face, a short white dainty dress that always flowed when she
walked. An important quote coming from her is: “Are you happy?” She asks Montag
this question and it begins to make him question many things in his life. When
Montag asks Beatty about Clarisse after not seeing her for an extended period
of time, he says, “She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.” This
quotation sums up Clarisse’s thoughts on the world to the reader from a basic
stand point.
What makes Clarisse unique from many of the people in her
society is that she is very observant and sees things from a different view
than them. Rather than just knowing the facts that the citizens are provided in
order not to question anything, she seems to have background knowledge on the
society in which she lives. She actually
takes time to think about things other citizens don’t appear to do. Her overall
attitude towards firemen is that they don’t frighten her. In general, she is
not afraid of firemen. She gives off the impression that she isn’t fond of what
they do because she looks like she has read books in her lifetime. She knows
that firemen were not always used to create fire but Montag, the fireman, does
not even consider that to be truth. He thinks he is right when saying that that
was never true and that houses were always fireproof and there would be no need
for that sort of occupation.
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