Ray Bradury is so descriptive in the first scenes that he provides at the begining of the book. Taking into account the first part of the chapter, and keeping in mind your reader experience, answer:
What does the setting of the story look like?
Describe how was the first conversation between Montag and Clarisse.
Why do you think about that "Are you happy?" question?
the setting of the story is gloomy where there is a disorder of the ideas that happen in the story, like a disaster since the story begins with all the bad things that have happened to Montag.
The first conversation was like an ignorance and estrangement of how he differentiates the ideals of seeing the Clarisse world and him, something very curious by the way...