In fahrenheit 451 did calrisse really die ?

Question

i know guys wife told him she did but considering all the pills se was taking and the long hours she sat in front of the tvs was she just saying it or did it really happen

Answer 1

she really died.

she was even creamated before he found out.

Answer 2

yup she died montag's wife tells him personally she died

Answer 3

A New Introduction by Ray Bradbury, from the 2003 edition: "... After the book was published, in the following years I've had hundreds of letters from readers asking me what became of Clarisse McClellan. They were so intrigued with this fascinating, strange, quixotic girl that they wanted to believe that somewhere out in the wilderness with the book people she had somehow survived. I resisted the temptation to bring her back to life in future editions of my novel. I left it to Francois Truffaut in his film version of Fahrenheit 451 in 1966 to give Clarisse a return to life, even though he had changed her name and given her extra years of maturity, which at the time I thought was a great mistake. But she did survive to the end of the film and at that time I decided Truffaut was correct. When I wrote the first version of the play I allowed Clarisse to survive among the book people in the wilderness. The same practice occurred when I wrote the opera. She was too wonderful a character to be allowed to die and I realize now that I should have allowed her to appear at the end of my book..."