1984 | Part 1, Chapter 3 Summary and Analysis

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Winston’s mother: appears only in Winston’s dreams, disappeared many years ago

Summary
Winston only vaguely remembers his parents, who disappeared in one of the Great Purges of the fifties. Winston’s only memory of his father is of the thin soles on his shoes.

He recalls his mother and sister in a vivid dream where, as passengers on a sinking ship, they clutch one another right before it falls to the bottom of the sea. From the expression on his mother’s face,...

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