Sep 5, 2008

1984 | Part 2, Chapter 3 Summary and Analysis

Summary
During the next few weeks Julia and Winston make love only once, in a ruined church Julia knows. Since meeting is so dangerous, sometimes after arriving at a spot the most they can do is exchange glances. Time is a problem as well, since so many evenings are devoted to Party activities.

Winston learns more about Julia. She is 26 years old; she lives in a hostel with 30 other women, and she works on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. By her own admission she is not intelligent. Although she enjoys the process of creating books, she has little regard for...