Confessing their unhappiness

In class we've discussed Mildred having another 'Mildred' inside herself, that she subconciously overdosed as a suicide attempt. But the two women have never met. This brings up a very good point with Montag's character in this book as well.
I think that to a certain extent Montag up to this point had been like Mildred. He thought that he was happy, but yet he still had been taking books for the past year. This shows that he hasn't really been happy, but he refused to admit it to himself until just recently. Once he and Mildrid begin really reading the books i believe he will continue to take the books and both of their characters will change drastically, as far as accepting their happiness. I expect that they will both realize how wrong their goverment is and that there really is no need to ban the books like they did. People just have to deal with being offended without taking these drastic measures, becasue it is not meant to target anyone in particular.
I also conclude that Beatty owns and reads books himself, because so far in the book we've seen Beatty quote litterature. We've also seen him talk about the past history of our country. This makes me think that he has to be reading wether he has been permited to for job purposes or illegaly like Montag, Mildred and many others in the society.
Ellie♥