In 'Fahrenheit 451', what is the name of the neighbor who questions the burning of books?

In “Fahrenheit 451,” the neighbor who questions the burning of books is Clarisse McClellan.

Clarisse is a seventeen-year-old girl who meets Guy Montag while walking home from his work as a fireman. Unlike most people in Bradbury’s society, she pays attention to nature, conversation, memory, and uncomfortable questions. Her curiosity unsettles Montag, who has accepted book burning and wall-sized entertainment as normal parts of life.

Clarisse does not deliver a formal political argument against censorship. Instead, her simple questions—especially her interest in whether Montag is genuinely happy—make him examine his own assumptions. Her influence helps begin his transformation from an unquestioning fireman into someone who secretly reads and challenges the state’s rules.

Beatty is Montag’s fire-chief and ideological opponent, while Faber is a former English professor who later helps Montag understand books. Mildred is Montag’s emotionally detached wife. Clarisse’s disappearance and reported death deepen the novel’s warning about a society that treats independent thought as dangerous.