“Well” said Beatty, “now you did it. Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why. Didn’t I hint enough when I sent the Hound in your place?”
Captain Beatty, Page 113
Captain Beatty says that Montag got punished for trying to change. Montag asked Beatty why he was being punished, and Beatty said, for being different. Here again Bradbury uses a metaphor to describe the situation that Montag is in. How Montag had tried to become different from the others is compared to how Montag tried to fly near the sun.
"Didn't I hint enough when I sent the hound in your place?" This quote shows that Captain Beatty knew that Montag had kept books and Beatty warned Montag to get rid of the books. I believe that Captain Beatty is the most complex character in the novel because although he is a book burner he has a vast knowledge in literature. Why does a book burner have such information about books? I think that at a point in Beatty's life he must have had a passion for books. But why did he become a firemen? Seems ironic why he had made that choice.
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