Clarisse's main role in the novel is to function in the role of innocence, both in mind and in action. She is such an anomaly to Montag in her mannerisms and her way of asking him questions that no one else will ask that she does, as the previous post pointed out, help break him out of his reverie and begin to question the society around him and its effects.
The fact that her entire family seems to be so different than the rest of the world in which they live is also important. Her family likes to sit around and talk to each other and Montag wonders why he doesn't do that with his "family." All of these play an important role in waking him up.
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