Nineteen Eighty-Four Novel Summary 8

Winston finishes work and decides to go to his flat via the long way through the prole section of Airstrip 1 (the province hes in). It is dangerous for a party member to go through there but ignores it liking to play with danger. As he walks through the streets people notice him right away as a party member for the blue overalls he is wearing (The party uniform). Winston is amazed when a bomb goes off and a few feet in front of him, people look, and then carry on as if nothing has happened. Winston was curious of the past and what it was like before the party took control so he heads to a bar and sees and old man. He begins to question him and the old man says they are better off now then under the control of the capitalists from his day. Winston disregards the information as inaccurate and continues on his way until he reaches the shop that he bought his book from. He gets a tour of the shop and offers on paintings and stuff until he finds a little glass ball with a piece of coral inside that he had found beautiful. he left and saw the girl from work staring at him from across the road and believes the she is a spy of the party who would turn him in. Winston gets the feeling of despair and doom as he knows he will undergo extremely painful torture.