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Captain Beatty is an unpredictable and strict man who may not be all that he seems. In the beginning of the book, Montag is seen to have a “fierce grin” that “never went away” and has been a fireman “since [he] was twenty” or for “ten years”(2,5). To do a job this long you need to like and respect your boss who in this case is Captain Beatty. When Montag goes to a call and burns a women alive who “stood below like a small girl” surrounded by “slaughtered birds[books]” he stays home “sick” from work the next day (34,36). After Beatty comes to visit him and preaches that the government is right Montag sees that he is becoming like his boss and begins to rebel by “putting his hand back up [grill of air conditioning system] and took out two books… moved his hand down and dropped the books to the floor”(63). Montag begin to rebel by reading, which greatly interested him, and made him happy. When Beatty finds out and almost makes Montag burn his own house Montag makes Beatty a “shrieking balze, jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame” (113,116). After all of this happens Montag realizes that Beatty wanted to die by taunting him through reading a poem in a book that he read. This shows that Beatty wasn’t completely sold on the society’s way of doing things, but didn’t have the courage to do anything. This made Montag take a step back and look at what is going on and then confront the fact that he can never be truly happy until he accepts that he needs to follow his heart and do what makes him happy. This is the final push for Montag to leap through that new door and grab hold of his new