Right at the same time that the jet bombers go screaming
over his house, Guy Montag is finding out what his wife Millie has done. He is finding
out that she has gone and swallowed her whole bottle of sleeping pills and is near
death. As the bombers go past, he calls the emergency
hospital.
To me, this is very symbolic. Both the society
and the Montag "family" are in grave danger. There are these bombers flying over
showing that the society is at danger of annihilation in war. At the same time, Millie
is in danger from the pills and their family is in danger because of the fact that her
life is so empty that she would (unknowingly) overdose herself in that
manner.
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