Montag,a third generation fireman, who was named after a prominent paper manufacturing company, acts as unconcerned book burner in the beginning. He enjoy burning books because he thought it's the most notable and respectful profession. People are afraid of them because they control the government and the society. .
Satisfied with everything he does until one day he met Clarisse Mc Clellan, a joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic teen-ager who with out fear raised question about the life he leads and the contents of the books his burning. Little he knows that he became fascinated by Clarisse view about the world. She then became his eye opener.He started reading books he stole from the houses he burned. .
He started reading even his wife Mildred, whose life is given entirely on taking pills and watching her so called family on their three wall screen television, argues about it. His boss Captain Beatty, on the other hand, is a well read in literature, but uses it only to argue his society's view point. He claims that reading is bad and that it only makes people unhappy. .
Dissatisfied with the society, he conspires with Professor Faber, a retired English professor he met in the park. When their plan was discovered by Captain Beatty and Faber's life is in jeopardy, Montag kills Beatty with flam thrower then escapes the city. In the forest where the river led him, he came across a group of people led by Granger. He then joins the group of refugees who preserved books by memorizing them. After the war destroys the city, Montage and the "Book People" head back to the city and help them rebuild a better society.