This piece of art is called Hope by George Frederic Watts. It is a painting of blindfolded female playing a lyre with only one string and sitting on a globe. This image represents blinded Hope, sadness, and emptiness. This is comparable to me, Guy Montag, and my character in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. For example on pages 7-9, Clarisse, my neighbor, asks me if I am happy: “ ‘Are you happy?’ she said. ‘Am I what?’ … Of course I’m happy. What does she think? I’m not?… [I] was not happy.” When Clarisse first asked me if I was happy, I didn’t think about the question. I didn’t think about what she actually meant when she asked. I didn’t realize that she was asking about me. The more I thought about the question, the more I realized that I was not happy. In fact, I felt empty and sad, just like the female figure in the artwork above.













