i would say the greatest conflict in Fahrenheit 451 is man vs. society. everything seems fairly pleasant. until he is forced to leave a woman in a burning house along with her books. how could everyone except this way of life. a life without books, knowledge, freedom, thought? montage doesn't understand and can hardly agree with this concept.
another conflict would be the ideas and thoughts the girl next door had brought. the idea of why bill boards are so big, and the dandelion. Oh the dandelion, brought up far to much thinking. it claimed he was not in love. the problem with this was is a married man. he then remembers thinking that if his wife died he would not cry. and this thought made him cry. this brings us to yet another conflict.
man vs woman. montage and his wife can hardly get along, their relationship seems rather awkward. Mildred (his wife) seems to appreciate the tree walled TV set more then her own husband. Its just a reoccurring conflict. I'm not sure if it plays such a significant role but it seems to. it kinda seems to drag montage down and hold him back from experiencing more. to really explore his thoughts and discover more about the world he lives in. Mildred doesn't have any interest in free thinking or anything thinking at all.
so perhaps it really boils down to a conflict of man vs. himself just becuase of all the thinking or absence of thinking which montage has to undergoe and his emotions which fallow. (sadness, frusraion, anger, curiosity, worry.....)
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