As Winston predicted would happen, Syme vanishes. During the preparations for Hate Week, the city comes alive with the heat of the summer, and even the proles seem rowdy.
Parsons hangs streamers everywhere and his children sing a new song, called “Hate Song,” written in celebration of the event.
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Winston becomes increasingly obsessed with the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop, thinking about it even when he cannot go there.
He fantasizes that Katherine will die, which would allow him to marry Julia; he even dreams of altering his identity to become a prole.
Winston and Julia talk about the Brotherhood; he tells her about the strange kinship he feels with O’Brien, and she tells him that she believes the war and Party enemies like Emmanuel Goldstein to be Party inventions.
Winston is put off by her thoughtless lack of concern and scolds her for being a rebel only from the waist down.
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