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Imagine this world, as crazy as it is now, living for nothing. Dying for nothing. Not having a clue as to what tomorrow will bring, and shrugging a shoulder at your best friend who died in a car wreck, killing four others. Not caring. Not ....

Middle of Term Paper
... for death reflected a social malice of purposelessness and hopelessness. Montag comes home from work to find Mildred lying deathlike on the bed in the darkness listening earplugs. The room is described as not empty and then empty indeed, because she is physically there, but her thoughts and feeling are elsewhere. Montag will not turn on the lights in the bedroom and will not open the window to let in outside light, even though he feels as if he cannot breathe in the room with the windows closed. Mildred suffers from a hidden melancholy which she cannot consciously accept and which leads to her overdose on sleeping pills without knowi ...