Fahrenheit 451

Clarisse and Montag

When Montag enters his home, he stares at the blank wall, but in memory sees Clarisse. What extended simile describes how he sees her?

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She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it has to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses but moving also toward a new sun.

How like a mirror, too, her face.

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Fahrenheit 451