When Bradbury puts in, "You reading up on fireman theory? Theory, hell, said Montag. It's poetry" (Bradbury 97). This is when Mildred, Guys wife who spends her day watching television, is having friends over and they spot out that Guy has a book. They think this is the worst thing in the world because a fireman out of all people should not have a book. So when Mrs. Phelps, Mildred's friend, says, You reading up on fireman theory, she means that he is going against the law with reading this book. Guy shows that he is very strong to go against the law.
The symbolic significance in this book was that Bradbury was showing us how our future was going to look. If we keep going downhill from reading and social life the future would look like this. That is the point that Bradbury is trying to get across to readers. If we could just slim down the amount of television we are watching these days we would be a whole lot better off in the long run.
Bibliography
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.
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