Late at night, firemen sitting at a big round table playing a silent game of poker as the alarm goes off ringing the whole building. “The flutter of cards, motion of hands, of eyelids, the drone of the time-voice in the firehouse ceiling ‘...one thirty-five, Thursday morning, November fourth...one thirty-six...one thirty-seven A.M….”’ (p. 38) When Beatty was introduced into the book he was said to be a usual fire captain who acted much like Montag in his actions and as well as in his thoughts as a firefighter, later on to figure out that he was everything but a usual man. As Montag changed throughout the book Beatty stayed the same even in the face of conflict. Beatty’s outlook on books is always the same he says they are horrid and useless
