The more I continue reading Fahrenheit 451, the more it reminds me of the USSR. The government uses propaganda, create laws and uses force to terrorize the citizens. All the images that each citizen sees in their parlor is carefully edited and changed to benefit the government, because the people will believe what they see and hear. The firemen spy on people like secret police to retain the information of books from citizens because books could bring about thoughts that could lead to retaliation and speaking out against the government. Remembering that the people aren't supposed to think, likewise firefighters, everyone just does what they're told and expected. However, someone like Clarisse who pushes the system and explores new and different thoughts are killed to prevent it from spreading. As you can tell very much like the USSR during the Cold War. "The Parlor" as they claim I'm thinking its like a media room (living room) with a big projection screen, or TV on the wall. Guessing beacause of the detail Bradbury uses when Guy talks about the images being on the wall and reaching into the wall to unplug it. or do you think a "parlor" is something else? Guy was having a hard time dealing with himself after he had to burn the lady alive with her books. Clarisse planted the simple thoughts of change in Montag's mind, and with this fire it got him wondering even more. He wonders things like "What in this books makes it so good that she'd be willing to die with them?" While his wife is totally wrapped up in all the propaganda that she hears, she cannot even begin to see what Montag is starting to see underneath the fact. Will she ever be able to understand or even put her mind in the same setting and place as Montag even for an instance?