Fahrenheit 451
What realization does montag come to about captain Beatty? why does he believe this to be so?
Montag realizes that Beatty wants to die. He sees Beatty is a tortured soul who is agonized by paradox. Beattly cannot reconcile his love of party ideology and fire with his love for books. He despises the things he loves and really just begs Montag to kill him.