Both Uses of
confront
in
Fahrenheit 451
- Mildred backed away as if she were suddenly confronted by a pack of mice that had come up out of the floor.
p. 63.3 *confronted = faced or challenged
- He dropped a book, broke pace, almost turned, changed his mind, plunged on, yelling in concrete emptiness, the beetle scuttling after its running food, two hundred, one hundred feet away, ninety, eighty, seventy, Montag gasping, flailing his hands, legs up down out, up down out, closer, closer, hooting, calling, his eyes burnt white now as his head jerked about to confront the flashing glare, now the beetle was swallowed in its own light, now it was nothing but a torch hurtling upon him; all sound, all blare.†
p. 121.7
Definition:
to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence