Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. 盖伊·蒙塔格是一名消防员。他的工作是销毁最非法的商品,印刷的书,以及它们隐藏的房子。蒙塔格从不质疑自己的行为所造成的破坏和毁灭,他每天都回到平淡的生活和妻子米尔德里德身上,米尔德里德整天和她的电视“家人”在一起。但当他遇到一个古怪的年轻邻居克拉丽斯时,蒙塔格向他介绍了一个人们不生活在恐惧中的过去,以及一个通过书中的想法而不是电视上无意识的闲聊来看待世界的现在,他开始质疑他所知道的一切。