When Guy Montag reads the poem to the ladies, the two of
them have kind of different responses. One of them, Clara Phelps, bursts into tears.
She has no idea why she's crying, but she can't stop. The other friend, Mrs. Bowles, is
trying to comfort Mrs. Phelps. At the same time, she is getting really angry at
Montag. She is telling him how nasty poetry is because of the fact that it makes people
feel bad (the way Clara is right then).
Montag throws them
out because (in my opinion) he can't stand the hypocrisy of what Mrs. Bowles is saying.
He points out that their lives are already terrible and they are just numb to it. He
lists all these bad things that have happened to them and he seems to be saying that it
is really fake for them to pretend that they're happy and that it is stuff like poetry
that makes them miserable.
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