Montag and Mildred do not get a divorce, but they do separate in Part Three of the novel. After Montag interacts with his intuitive neighbor, Clarisse McClellan, he realizes that he is not in love with Mildred and becomes aware that his marriage is a failure. Montag and his wife even struggle to remember where they first met each other, and Mildred does not share Montag’s interest in literature.
In Part Two, Montag returns home after visiting Faber and reads poetry aloud to his wife and her two friends. After Montag makes them cry, Mildred calls in an alarm on him. In Part Three, Montag arrives at his home with Captain Beatty, and Mildred rushes out of the house without acknowledging her husband. Mildred leaves Montag because of his affinity for literature and refuses to speak to him while she is getting into a cab.
Unlike Montag, Mildred has no desire to examine or change her superficial, shallow life. The two characters do not get a formal divorce, but they do separate. Towards the end of the story, Montag escapes to the wilderness, and Mildred ends up dying in the nuclear attack.
In Fahrenheit 451, Montag and Mildred do not get divorced but they do separate from each other. In fact, Mildred leaves Montag because she becomes increasingly frustrated with his desire to read books and to bring an end to the system of censorship.
The real turning point for Montag and Mildred's marriage comes in Part Two when he reads a poem out loud to Mildred and her friends. Not only does Montag really upset Mildred's friends when he does this, but he makes her angry enough to report his activity to Captain Beatty. Shortly after, Mildred packs her things and leaves him without offering any explanation.
Montag and Mildred do not get the opportunity to either fix their marriage or divorce since she is killed in Part Three of the novel when the city is destroyed.
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