Book 2 Chapter 4: The Room

       At this point in the book Winston and Julia have seen each other and had affairs several times. They have been busy with the preparations for Hate Week and have not seen each other for a bit now. Winston has rented a small room above Mr. Charrington’s shop, for the single reason of using it as a love nest for himself and Julia. He walks around in the room thinking and desperate for some time with Julia who has not been able to do nothing due to her period as well. Winston at this point wishes to have a more settle life with Julia, like that of a married couple. In the room they see a rat which end up scaring Winston more than Julia due to Winston's fear of rats which is greater than his fear for anything else. After that Julia sees a paper weight in which she asks about. Winston claims that it is a link to the past, and the chapter concludes with him looking at the paper weight imagining him living with Julia in an eternal stasis.
       I believe that this room is going to lead Julia and Winston to have issues and end up badly. I believe this because the room is located on top of a shop and in the beginning of the chapter there is a red armed women. Winston is beginning to give great importance to the room for it is his love nest to use with Julia. Winston  is starting to feel a necessity to have affairs with Julia as shown through his action and emotions. Winston feels a desperate need to be with Julia and to corrupt and a go against the party. They are beginning to get too comfortable with having affairs right under the parties noses. The more comfortable they are the more reckless and careless they are leaving them an easier target for the thought police to catch.
       Winston is letting his desire for affairs and time with Julia let his guard down. In the beginning of the chapter it says that Winston "was violently angry. During the month that he had known her the nature of his desire for her had changed. At the beginning there had been little true sensuality in it. Their first love-making had been simply an act of the will. But after the second time it was different. The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to. When she said that she could not come, he had the feeling that she was cheating him. But just at this moment the crowd pressed them together and their hands accidentally met. She gave the tips of his fingers a quick squeeze that seemed to invite not desire but affection. Julia on the other hand tries more to assure that they are not to get caught.