Both Guy and the others can no longer tolerate the state of affairs enforced on them due to the government as well as others in the society who are afraid or unwilling to question why things are the way they are. Thence, Montag’s encounter with Clarisse plays a major role in Guy’s moral development as she sets him on a path that he never wishes to leave as it makes him feel alive & more motivated to cause further change in his morally bankrupt society, which is a drastic moral development for Guy since rather than burning books and destroying them as he once did, now he was memorizing and preserving them, in an attempt to bring them back to