Page #122

Blog #4
Beatty wanted to die.
In the middle of the crying Montag knew it for the truth. Beatty had wanted to die. He had just stood there, not really trying to save himself, just stood there, joking, needling, thought Montag,and the thought was enough to stifle his sobbing and let him pause for air. How strange, strange, to want to die so much that you let a man walk around armed and then instead of shutting up and staying alive, you go on yelling at people and making fun of them until you get them mad, and then...

Beatty was a questionable character to me. Basically he acted like a jerk throughout the entire book, all because he wanted to die. I think he was afraid to die, to die on his own anyways. It wasn't good enough for him to just go out like everyone else, or to take the obvious shortcut. He had to go out with a bang, at another man's hand. He poked and prodded and rolled poor Montag. He made him feel so insignificant and primal that he had done what Beatty wanted after all.