Who is mildred montag

Montag's wife whom he courted in Chicago and married when they both were twenty, Mildred characterizes shallowness and mediocrity. Her abnormally white flesh and chemically burnt hair epitomize a society that demands an artificial beauty in women through diets and hair dye.

Completely immersed in an electronic world and growing more incompatible with Montag with every electronic gadget that enters her house, she fills her waking hours with manic drives in the beetle and by watching a TV clown, who distracts her from her real feelings and leads her nearly to suicide from a drug overdose.

Unwilling and unable to analyze rationally, she lives the shallow life that Beatty touts — acquiescence to a technological chamber of horrors. She distances herself from real emotion by identifying with "the family," a three-dimensional fiction in which she plays a scripted part. It could be, as Montag wonders, that she took one, and then forgot she took one and took another, and forgot about that and took another, etc. But we already knew that. The alternative is a little more interesting: Mildred is deeply unhappy.

Since Mildred is the poster child for the average citizen in this future world, we start to wonder if everyone is a desperate suicide case with a shiny smiling veneer. Given that the plumbers who pumped her stomach in Part One have ten similar cases a night, we have to wonder.

After completing the program, most of the students joined the U. Cadet Nurse Corps. Under Dr. To accommodate the large number of students, Adelphi built Alumnae and Harvey Halls, two federally funded residence halls for women. In Dr. Montag advocated the creation of an associate degree in nursing that would have a great impact on community college education for nursing.

Montag remained actively involved with Adelphi and received many honors. At the June Homecoming for the Class of , she was remembered. Montag was honored at the 60th anniversary of the Adelphi University School of Nursing and became the first member of the School of Nursing Hall of Fame. Her image is on the medal awarded to each honoree.

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