1984 | Part 2, Chapter 4 Summary and Analysis
Summary
Winston rents the room above the junk shop. Mr. Charrington, who is obviously glad about the rent, seems unaffected by the fact that the room will be used for a secret affair.
Winston’s paperweight sits on the table. He has brought some Victory Coffee and saccharine. The clock on the mantelpiece reads 7:20, but it is really 19:20 in the outside world.
From the courtyard a solid-looking prole woman sings as she hangs the laundry on the clothesline. She is singing a melody created just weeks before by a versificator in the Music Department. To Winston, the melody,...
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