Mildred is the informant on Montag. Although she has been reading with him and letting him read to her, Mildred's mind and consciousness can not be penetrated. She believes firmly in the "social order". She doesn't want to think. She is happy just to exist. Of course, this is an oxymoron - for she isn't happy and she doesn't really "exist." Mildred despairs, finding no pleasure in life and seeming to not want to find pleasure. Montag's new pursuits scare her.
It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. . . . It's a mystery. . . . Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences . . . clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical. - Beatty to Montag, just before Montag kills him.
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