First, individuals can see that struggle and suffering can lead to wisdom and progress, due to the fact that some things are worth fighting or dying for. As Ray Bradbury states in Fahrenheit 451, when the old lady was about to be burned along with the books she had, “Beatty flicked his fingers to spark the kerosene. He was too late. Montag gasped. The woman on …show more content…
As an illustration, when Mildred realized she was about to be crushed while wasting her time watching the parlor walls one last time, “Montag heard her screaming, because in the millionth part of time left, she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball, and it was such a wildly empty face, all by itself in the room, touching nothing, starved and eating of itself, that at last she recognized it as her own and looked quickly up at the ceiling as it and the entire structure of the hotel blasted down upon her”(Bradbury 152). This means that Mildred realized that after all of the events she went through, she was never happy to begin with, and she only believed she was happy because she watched the parlor walls and thought the people inside were her family, when it reality, it wasn’t. As a result of this, Mildred learns that she wasted her life away by doing pointless things like watching T.V or talking about T.V to her friends and other things as