Physically, the main thing that goes wrong with Mildred in
Part One of the book is that she almost dies. She accidentally takes a whole bottle
full of sleeping pills and is near death before Guy gets these guys to come over and
pump her stomach and replace her blood.
But you also have
to wonder why this happened, because that tells us (I think) what is really wrong with
Millie. What is wrong is that she is really not happy. She has no emotional
fulfillment in her life because all she cares about is the "families" on the parlor
walls. This is, Bradbury implies, why she has allowed herself to make the "mistake"
that almost kills her.
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