My interpretation of the continuation of the story, Fahrenheit 451 using Mrs. Phelps.
Mrs. Phelps slugs out the house, followed by Mildred who keeps reassuring her.

"Cara, it will be alright Guy was just kidding about the silly poem and his silly books, silly silly man." Mildred explained franticly to cover up husband's foolishness. As Mrs. Phelps walked out and boards the train she realizes maybe the world wasn't as nice as it seemed maybe it was as the poem said, "...a land of dreams". Rather it is,"..where ignorant armies clash by night". The arising realization stunned Mrs. Phelps until she remembered she was alone, on the train as it rode through the dark tunnel. A tear slips down her face as she remembers how, beautiful the poem had been describing the calm sea, glimmering in the tranquil bay and how peaceful it seemed to be until it took a drastic change. Now roaring tides, and the eternal sadness. It creates a tear in Mrs. Phelps heart as she had been so blind to know how messed up the world she lives in really was. She began to cry, slow and erupting starting deep within the confines of her heart up to her lungs which gasp for air. Into her vocal cords which let out screeches and sobs, soon all this turning to yells, cries of agony at the conclusion to a corrupt life she lives. She cried for the children she never had, and how she had always hoped for one day.She cried for Hubert Hoag who had truly deserved to win the election, but she was too blinded to believe his true potential and the millions of people who had the same mind set of appearance before knowledge. And most of all she cried for her husband Pete, who was off fighting in the war, with nothing to fight for or live for. It hit her like a bullet to the heart, the tragic poem written by Matthew Arnold to his bride, about the world and how it is not all, calm and sweet. Events happen that are often upsetting, and unsettling to those who are not used to anything otherwise. Mrs. Phelps relates to the feeling of human misery and how negative their society is shielding those with greatness, those who question how their world is being run. This idea clearly comes off when Arnold uses literary allusion to connect his idea of Sophocles and Agean to human misery. The train doors creak open, as it arrives to the last stop, Mrs. Phelps steps out, seeing a new world for the first time through new, clear eyes. Disgusted by what lies before her, cluessless people with no thought of to what is happening.
"Why am I here? I do not deserve to be alive, after all the injustice I have defended." Mrs. Phelps whispers to herself as people begin to stare at her with their confused eyes. She walks on and on not knowing where she is going or if she will ever stop, but she goes to wherever the path may take her. To take her own life for those who had been killed by the stupid firemen, stupid government, and stupid leaders. The river comes into view she runs for it as though this is were she belongs now, this is where she deserves to be and the only place left for her is here. She stretches down to take off her shoes. And places her cold feet into the empty water, which is how she is now empty and lost. Alone, no one will miss her or even remember her name she will soon become a distant memory to be replaced. Because that is the world she lives in, and she cannot stand it any longer.
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