Monday, July 29, 2013

"Beatty wanted to die." What proof leads Montag to this epiphany in Fahrenheit 451?

After Guy Montag kills Beatty at Montag's house, he is
running away (or trying to since his leg is all messed up because of the hound.  He
falls down and when he does, he realizes that Beatty wanted to
die.


What he gives as evidence is Beatty's behavior.  He
says that only someone who wanted to die would taunt someone who had a weapon like that
(like the flamethrower that Montag had).  Someone who didn't want to die would have been
leaving Montag alone so that they could stay alive instead of taunting
him.

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