Book 1 Chapter 2-6

Quote/Text

                  "It was three years ago. It was on a dark evening, in a narrow side street near one of the big railway stations. She was standing near a doorway in the wall, under a street lamp that hardly gave any light. She had a young face, painted very thick. It was really the paint that appealed to me, the whiteness of it, like a mask, and the bright red lips. Party women never paint their faces. There was nobody else in the street, and no telescreens. She said two dollars. I - ". (Pg.63


Response
                  This was a text right from the beginning of chapter 6. Winston had started writing in his journal again, providing a piece of his mind and more information of about him.Compared to the narrators', the content provided in Winston's journals are probably a bit more important because we get to connect with Winston on a personal level. Anyways, back to the text, this is just one of the random memories that Winston likes to share. It's one of those things that Winston thinks of when living his tedious and unrealistically horrible life. It took me 2 times to read and finally understand what the text was indicating to come to realize that Winston was talking about his first experience of a hooker. It gave me more insights about the illegality of prostitution in Oceania, since Winston made sure to include the fact there weren't any telescreens around. And it gave me more information about Winston's love/sex life. Although I can't be completely sure as to whether Winston took the 2 dollar deal the prostitute offered (2 'dollars' in England? I thought they used Euros), all the information implies that he inevitably did take it. Overall, this texts made changes to how I now see Winston, in other words new lenses. Before, I just saw him as a person who feels he didn't fit in with the society he lives but kept quiet, but now I think that he maybe entirely deviant, nearly in all aspects.