1984

In Chapter Eight, Part 2, how was O'brien's dwelling place different from that of Winston's?

Part 2 chapter 8

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Winston's stands room above Mr. Charrington's shop contains a small desk, an oil stove, a saucepan, and two pots, all supplied by Mr. Charrington. Julia's contribution are various black market items, including good bread, real coffee, sugar, makeup, and perfume. Winston also has a roommate, a rat.

O'Brien's apartment is described as follows;

 

The room they were standing in was long-shaped and softly lit. The tele-screen was dimmed to a low murmur; the richness of the dark-blue carpet gave one the impression of treading on velvet. At the far end of the room O’Brien was sitting at a table under a green-shaded lamp, with a mass of papers on either side of him. He had not bothered to look up when the servant showed Julia and Winston in.

 

The whole atmosphere of the huge block of flats, the richness and spaciousness of everything, the unfamiliar smells of good food and good tobacco, the silent and incredibly rapid lifts sliding up and down, the white-jacketed servants hurrying to and fro — everything was intimidating.

 

The passage down which he led them was softly carpeted, with cream-papered walls and white wainscoting, all exquisitely clean. That too was intimidating. Winston could not remember ever to have seen a passageway whose walls were not grimy from the contact of human bodies.

 

 

 

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1984