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This blog is a written witness for my personal challenge of not becoming a Mildred Montag, a cold, distant woman in the edge of a nervous breakdown. In order to avoid the obvious future, I will try to collect what I have lost on the way here and to force myself to keep the core stable while opening myself to the outside world.
Mildred Montag is a minor character in Fahrenheit 451, a novel, a dystopia by Ray Bradbury.
An analysis of her is made far more successfully in SparkNotes.

"Mildred is the one major character in the book who seems to have no hope of resolving the conflicts within herself. Her suicide attempt suggests that she is in great pain and that her obsession with television is a means to avoid confronting her life. But her true feelings are buried very deep within her. She even appears to be unaware of her own suicide attempt. She is a frightening character, because the reader would expect to know the protagonist's wife very intimately, but she is completely cold, distant, and unreadable. Her betrayal of Montag is far more severe than Beatty's, since she is, after all, his wife. Bradbury portrays Mildred as a shell of a human being, devoid of any sincere emotional, intellectual, or spiritual substance. Her only attachment is to the “family” in the soap opera she watches."http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/canalysis.html