Each character in a story is included to serve a purpose, whether it is to move the plot forward or to serve as an antagonist to the main character. Clarisse serves several purposes in this novel. She is a teenager, representing innocence and imagination, and is the antithesis of what Montag's society is all about. She provides Montag with the motivation to question his society and his own role in furthering the goals of that society. Clarisse and her family represent what Montag's society could and should be. They talk to one another and care about each other. They aren't lonely or alienated from one another.
Why does Clarisse have to die? Her death emphasizes all that is wrong with Montag's conformist society. Bradbury uses her to show the inhumanity of the society in his novel. If a society would kill a sweet, innocent girl, what does this say about it? Her death intensifies Bradbury's message to the reader.
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