Your question refers to the way in which, during his
conversation with Clarisse, Montag doesn't really think about what Clarisse says to him
or asks him, but just sticks to his own impression of the world and what he thinks he
knows to be true. This is something that Clarisse with typical boldness addresses head
on when she questions Montag's assertion that firemen used to actually put out fires
rather than start them:
Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses
used to burn by accident and they needed firement to stop the
flames.
Montag laughs in
response to this, and Clarisse is quick to ask him why it is that he is laughing. This
is an incongruity that Clarisse is again quick to point
out:
You laugh
when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I've
asked you.
Therefore we can
see that Clarisse is very aware that Montag doesn't think about the kind of questions
and issues that she is raising in their conversation. He is so trapped in his own view
of the world and what is "true" and what is "false" that he cannot accept or even think
about alternative views of reality.
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