Winston finds himself inside the Ministry of Love in a cell with no windows and a telescreen watching his every move. He meets a drunk woman, a cell mate, who tells him that her name is also Smith and that she could be his mother, a fact that Winston cannot deny. Winston thinks of Julia and O’Brien. Ampleforth, the poet, Winston’s coworker, is put into the cell with Winston. They discuss their “crimes,” and Ampleforth is called out of the cell to Room 101. Parsons, Winston’s orthodox neighbor is put into the cell, much to Winston’s surprise.
Winston begins to think about Julia and what is happening to her. He believes that she is suffering, perhaps more than he is, and he decides that he would take double the pain she receives if doing so would spare her, but he realizes that this is just an intellectual decision. After a few ugly incidences involving the other prisoners in the cell, O’Brien comes in to get Winston. Winston initially believes that O’Brien is also caught but soon realizes that O’Brien has betrayed him.
