The action in Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a future world where watching television has turned into the main type of leisure. There, Ray Bradbury, shows us that leisure can be destructive to happiness because it hypnotizes people by making them forget about real life, and therefore prevents them from thinking or talking. All are so obsessed with TV that they do not have time to look around them and are not interested in real life. Leisure hypnotizes one so he places television above reality. This means that TV has obsessed people so much that they do not pay attention to their surroundings. An example is the scene from the novel where Ms Phelps is talking about what would happen if her husband passes away.” He said if I get killed off, you just go right ahead and don’t cry, but get married again, and don’t think of me.’ ‘That reminds me’, said Mildred. ’Did you see the 5-minute romance last night in your wall? Well it was about this woman who…” (103).This clearly shows what Mildred’s looks of life are. While her friend is talking for a possibility for her man to die, Mildred is “hypnotized” by TV and is thinking only about a soap opera she’d watched the previous night. The show is more important for her than the life of other lady. Thus, leisure in this world has greater importance than real life. Watching TV prevents one from talking. People are watching so much TV that they have forgotten the pleasure from speaking or even just pondering peacefully. A situation where Montag has turned off the TV for the friends of Mildred shows what people think about the possibility of just talking. “Montag moved his lips. ‘Let’s talk.’ The women jerked and stared” (104). The women’s reaction, to what we may seem as a normal suggestion, is indicative to what has happened to the world. The girls consider talking as odd. Also they are so obsessed with TV that the temporary impossibility to watch it has made them quite nervous. People are so used to watch TV whenever they can that they are not left time for communicating “mouth-to-mouth”. Another example compares the past and the present in the novel. Here Clarisse is talking to Montag what it was used to be earlier. “What was it Clarisse had said one afternoon? ’No front porches. My uncle says that there used to have front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talked when they wanted to talk, rocking and not talking when they didn’t want to talk…the real reason might be they didn’t want people sitting and doing nothing” (70). People here are limited from the possibility to talk to each other and do nothing else. Their place for speaking and thinking, the front porch, is removed so that they spend their free time in front of the TV and not just do nothing. Television, then, is the main “restrictor” of their talking time. That leads us to the conclusion that leisure prevents people from talking. In his novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury clearly shows that certain types of leisure can be destructive for happiness. Television obsesses the people so much that it becomes more important for them than reality. Also TV takes all of the person’s time and he’s not left with any to just talk and relax.