Fahrenheit 451 - Symbols and their Meanings

Salamander

Immune to fire, and indirectly represents a status as above the law as it is something that cannot be destroyed by fire. The firemen have the salamander on their uniform which implies that they are supposedly above the law.

Phoenix

Let's not keep doing what the phoenix does by rebuilding and burning, but instead learn from your mistakes so that you do not have to keep burning (metaphor).

Sand and Sieve

Memory. It is difficult to remember things, and that is hard to keep them in a memory because they fall away like sand through a sieve.

Caesar and the "praetorian guard"

Bradbury uses this is in a more positive way as saying that books are the praetorian guard and we are Caesar as it is like a guard to help you stay humble REMEMBER: humble

The Hound

represents surveillance, militaristic techniques, law, security, fear to help achieve their goals (law), law and order, intimidation, etc.

Icarus Allusion (from Beatty)

You flew too high towards the sun and you burned your damn planes (what Beatty think of Montag as a metaphor)

The Parlor Wall and the "family"

mindless technology

The Lawn Cutter vs The Gardener (metaphor)

Be there in the moment. The gardener leaves something for the future. Granger says that you have to leave something for the future. It gives back, and continues to flourish.