Book 2 Chapter 5: The Room

       Winston is becoming increasingly obsessed with the room that he has rented as personal use with Julia, more like a love nest. Winston is beginning to feel a desperate need for Julia. Winston even dreams of Katherine dying, that would allow him to marry Julia and have happy life along side with Julia. They see each other and meet in the room laying side by side on a stripped bed under the open window, naked for the sake of coolness. They do not mind all the filth, the rat that had came out or even all the bugs because their desire to have sex or make love was greater than anything. They begin talking about the brotherhood, and Winston makes a comment about his strong connection with he shares with O' Brien and Julia's answer surprises Winston somewhat. 'Not much, perhaps. But it was evidence. It might have planted a few doubts here and there, supposing that I'd dared to show it to anybody. I don't imagine that we can alter anything in our own lifetime. But one can imagine little knots of resistance springing up here and there -- small groups of people banding themselves together, and gradually growing, and even leaving a few records behind, so that the next generations can carry on where we leave off.'  'I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.'  'You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her. Julia really had no understanding of what Winston was trying to explain to her. She was very confused on the point of the story and why Winston was telling her the story of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford and the momentous slip of paper which he had once held between his fingers. 'Winston had dropped his habit of drinking gin at all hours. He seemed to have lost the need for it. He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided, leaving only a brown stain on the skin above his ankle, his fits of coughing in the early morning had stopped.' All of the sex with Julia and his 'love' for Julia had Winston changing. They where beginning to doubt that they would get caught as stated, 'Now that they had a secure hiding-place, almost a home, it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time.' This confidence that they where beginning to have as a result of the secureness that they felt shows a weakness, a vulnerable point where due to there unawareness they could get caught. This foreshadows in a way that they willl get caught and will go through a series of issues.