Winston and O'Brien

Winston knows that he will eventually accept O’Brien’s summons to meet him, but he isn’t sure when he will go and meet him. What Orwell is doing here is foreshadowing that O’Brien is going to talk with Winston and Julia about how they can overthrow the party somehow. It makes the reader feel like the beginning of a revolution is about to start until Orwell says that the feeling Winston got from talking to O’brien is the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave. This then changes those feelings of everything changing for the better to that when Winston finally does go and meet O’Brien it will be a trap to destroy Winston. Because I have already read the book I know what is going to happen so my view of O’Brien is already set in stone, but for now, the impression I have of O’Brien is that he is unhappy with how the party is treating the outer party and wants to rectify the situation. He acts very cautiously and is able to read people very closely. If he really is the man that is going to help start the revolution he is doing a very good job of making the inner party think that he is truly working for Big Brother.