Blog #4- Farenheit 451 - Personal

Among the characters in the novel, I've found Millie as the most fascinating character. At the beginning of the novel, the novel tells us that Millie attempted suicide by consuming a large amount of sleeping pills. However, she appears to be unaware of her own suicide attempt and spends all day watching the parlor. This showed me that she has pain deep within her inner self and she tries to hide and console the pain by watching the parlor. Moreover, Millie's obssession over the palor and denying books indicate that she does not like to face reality in life and accept what the palor tells her. The parlor is overcontroling her life.
As a wife of protagonist, I obviously expected to get familiar with Millie as the story goes on in the novel. However, she remains unreachable (for both readers and Montag) because she is already too influenced by parlor and she likes the way the society is. When Montag is dramatically changed through out the novel, she remains unchanged despite being the closest person to Montag. She cannot seem to escape from the parlors and is trapped by them.
Millie, obviously does not carry out her action as a wife (nor does Montag). She prefers watching the parlor than talking with Montag (in fact, she barely talks to him), does not know and simply does not care when she and Montag met each other for the first time, and does not attempt to understand Montag when he tries to find depth meaning contained in books. It is obvious that she does not understand the meaning of love. The most unexpected action that she does is setting on the alarm on and abanding Montag in catastrophy. This really threw me off! How can a wife betray her husband? Does she have no feelings at all? When I read this part of the book, I had goosebumps all over my arms. How can a stupid television change a wife into a person who betrays her own husband?
As a person who is so close to Montag (the protagonist) and yet betrays him, I think Millie is the true antagonist in the novel overall.