Fahrenheit 451 "The Hearth and the Salamander" Response

Everyone mentions that Fahrenheit 451 is an extremely interesting and exciting book, but reading the first few sentences, I got little confused as to why a fireman was starting a fire instead of putting one out. Eventually I understood why Montag, a fireman, was burning houses and books. Montag lives in a society in the future where no literature is allowed and is almost completely reliant on technology. Their society gives out all their information through technologies and gives only the information it wants the people to know to keep the people from questioning their surroundings. Montag starts to think and question his world after he meets Clarisse. When Clarisse was introduced in the book, I knew she was different just by the way she approached Montag. I felt that Clarisse was a guardian angel of Montag. She was described  in white and suddenly disappeared after she changes the mind of Montag. Shortly after that, Montag's wife, Mildred, overdoses on sleeping pills. The thought of everyone taking sleeping pills just to sleep is a crazy idea. It really shows that they could quite possibly be constantly exhausted or depressed. Montag tries to talk to Mildred about what had happened, but they don't openly talk to each other. they have a loveless marriage much like Ethan Frome's. Captain Beatty was a quite interesting character; he was much more personal. It seems like he has read many books before. If our society today was anything near what theirs is like, I would be very much depressed. Our world and Fahrenheit 451's world are completely different; it would change everything.