Setting

=In //Fahrenheit 451,// Ray Bradbury predicts a dark, twenty-fourth-century America. The novel portrays a society where rigid conformity is expected of all individuals, and where independent thought is highly suspect. Most members of this society seem to willingly embrace the opportunity to escape the burdens of individuality and intellectualism, but their unconscious frustration manifests itself in the violence that permeates their bleak world.The river represents escaping for Montag because he gets away from the city. =