He is depicted living in a futuristic town where he works as a "fireman" whose job is to burn books and the buildings they are found in.

Bradbury emphasizes that the U.S. government, in burning books, is merely expressing the will of a people whose short attention spans, indifference, and hedonism have gradually eroded any semblance of intellectualism from public life.

Schools no longer teach the humanities, children are casually violent, and adults are constantly distracted by "seashells" (small audio devices resembling earbuds) and insipid television programs displayed on wall-sized screens.

He flees through the city streets to Faber's house, with another firehouse's mechanical hound and television network helicopters in hot pursuit.

In the game, Montag has continued to evade and resist the Firemen for over five years after the end of the novel and is sent on a mission to break into New York Library and transmit its microcassette archive to the Underground.