Physical Setting Quotations:

“There was a chessboard on the table beside them, with the pieces set out but no game started” (Orwell 82).

“It was the lonely hour of fifteen. Winston could not now remember how he had come to be in the café at such a time. The place was almost empty. A tinny music was trickling from the telescreens” (Orwell 81).

“The Chestnut Tree was almost empty. A ray of sunlight slanting through a window fell on dusty tabletops” (Orwell 305).

“Now and again he glanced up at a vast face which eyed him from the opposite wall. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said” (Orwell 305).

Emotional Setting Quotations:

“The tune that they were playing changed, and the tone of the music changed too. There came something into it-but it was hard to describe. It was a peculiar, cracked, braying, jeering note: in his mind Winston called it a yellow note” (Orwell 82).

“He was overwhelmed by a desire not so much to get away from Julia as to get back to the Chestnut Tree Café, which had never seemed so attractive as at this moment. He had a nostalgic vision of his corner table, with the newspaper and the chessboard and the ever-flowing gin. Above all, it would be warm in there” (Orwell 311).