I really like how Beatty showed Montag his library. We as readers didn't know he had one, but at the same time we did. It all fits. Of course Beatty would have a library and of course he would have been living off of books as a child and young man. That is just who Beatty is. And it makes perfect sense, (at least to me anyway), that Beatty would have suffered sorrow, pain, heartbreak, grief, and treachery, and turning to books to find comfort and solace, not finding any. It really shows the other side of books. When Beatty needed comfort and solace, he turned to books; the wrong source of the kind of solace he needed. The kind of comfort Beatty needed was healthy, healing, human interaction. Books bring one kind of comfort; the kind Beatty needed was not found in books. So to him, he felt like books had betrayed him and in turn he turned on them and became a "First Class Chief Fireman." Beatty was "book smart." He just wasn't "psychologically and emotionally smart."
-Emily Wahlquist
6th Period 12-8-11
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