Guy Montag is the main character in the novel Fahrenheit 451. Montag’s job is a fireman but a different kind of fireman they are supposed to find houses with books in them, and to destroy them. The homes in which books are found are also burned and the person who has the books is sent to jail. In the beginning, Guy Montag seems to like his job Then one day he meets a girl named Clarisse McClelean, his new neighbor, a sixteen year old girl. They talk and Clarisse tells him of a past when people were allowed to read books and were not afraid of firemen burning their houses. She asks Montag if there was ever a time wh