Fahrenheit 451 - Why Did Mildred Turn Him In

In the book Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag is turned in for having books. Not surprising seeing as pulled a book out and started to read while his wife had guests over. The surprising and rather sad part of the whole ordeal was who turned him in. Not only did his wife's friends all call and turn him in for having books but so did his own wife. The person that is supposed to love him no matter what happens, no matter how bad the situation is or how mad one is. His own wife called the fire station, and basically sentenced Guy to life imprisonment. Obviously Guy is devastated by the fact that his wife turned him in. It is easy to say the wife is at fault and to condemn her but why don't we try looking at it from her perspective. Imagine if you can that your life is going marvelously and all is well. Then one day your husband begins to act strangely. He comes home talking about this odd young women named Clarisse, you shrug it off but he continues to act different. Finally one day he seems to have lost it. He absolutely refuses to go in to his work which he has always loved. Then he pulls out boxes of books! In your house hidden away from you! He begins to seem almost hysterical claiming that their is something important in them something you must see. You finally decide to calm his nerves and read a book with him to calm his nerves but you find nothing but words. He begins claiming they are of utmost importance and that you must at all costs read these books almost as if it is life or death. So you stay up long in to the night reading those darn books, you find nothing of importance and yet he still claims to know something important that the government is hiding is in them.