Montag and the cheerful Clarisse begin talking regularly, until one day she is not outside waiting for him he eventually learns that she was killed by a speeding car. The next morning, she behaves as though nothing happened and watches as usual the programs on the television screens that make up three of the parlour walls. After he calls for help, two men arrive and revive her. At home, he finds that his wife, Mildred, has swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills in a suicide attempt. After leaving work one day, he meets Clarisse, a teenaged girl who enjoys nature and asks if he is happy. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job is to burn down houses in which books have been discovered.
The story takes place in an unspecified city in a distant future.
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