The knock at the door is Winston’s neighbor, Mrs. Parsons, who asks him to unclog her sink because her husband, Tom Parsons, who works with Winston in the Ministry of Truth, is not home. Winston obliges her and is accosted by her children, who call him a traitor, a thought criminal, and finally, Goldstein.
Winston returns home to continue the diary and again thinks of O’Brien. Winston recalls a dream seven years earlier in which a voice said to him, “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” He now believes this voice to be that of O’Brien’s and is certain that, in some way or another, the prophecy of the dream will come to pass.
Back at the diary, Winston finally realizes who the audience is for his diary. He also realizes the inevitability of his death at the hands of the Thought Police.
