![]() ![]() ![]() Am I surprised “Hollywood” used her character as a way to provide some on-screen romance? No, but it’s just textually inaccurate. In that that way – and only in that way – might she serve as a femme fatale, luring him to the light. Clarisse is a catalyst for Montag’s path toward the truth. My students always think they’ve “picked up” on something between Montag and Clarisse when they read the scenes with her, and I always stress how incorrect that reading is. And then there’s the whole spark between Montag and Clarisse. Clarisse is supposed to be light and airy and a picture of innocence, but in the film, she is too dark and brooding for my liking. It’s with Clarisse that the film falls of the wagon in the characters/characterization category. Bradbury is even quoted as saying he is Clarisse in the book: full of wonder and curiosity.
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