Winston Smith is the main character in “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” a novel by George Orwell. He is thirty-nine and has an injury on his right ankle now. He wears blue overalls which is the outfit for outer party members. He seems frail and has a diet consisting of bread and gin in his apartment where he lives alone in Victory Mansions. He is a worker for the Ministry of Truth, also known as Minitrue in Newspeak which is a language invented in their society. He is someone who, although working and obliging to certain rules, appears to not agree or enjoy the society he is living in, which is shown by his diary that he started. In the diary that he starts, he explains a graphic movie he watched and seemed to enjoy, along with other members of the party. He then goes on to write about new characters and certain beliefs he has. He introduces a woman that wears a sash which signifies she is part of the Junior Anti-Sex League which reveals that he, “disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones” (Orwell 11). Another character, O’Brien, a higher member of the party who seems to have the same ideas as Smith, is also introduced and is portrayed as an important character. They share a glance at the end of chapter two and Smith thinks about what it could mean. At the beginning of chapter three, Smith dreams of his mother and recalls certain memories. He rethinks on them as he is awake. He tries to figure out when Big Brother came into play in the government, and he recalls around 1960’s, but it is difficult to be sure. He refers to the party INGSOC, English Socialism, and realizes that he cannot remember when the party was even a thing. It seems like the book progresses, Smith is rethinking the past, which has no written documentation, and starts concluding that Big Brother and the party is lying about the past.
