Literary Luminary
"For a week after this, life was like a restless dream." Page 111
This form of similie was used by Orwell to describe Winston's emotions after receiving a slip of paper from one of his coworkers, Julia, while walking past her in the ministry. Numerous times before this encounter Winston described various mixed feelings towards the girl, be it from sexual attraction all the way to wanting to bash her head in with the paper weight he had purchased from the Proles district, and now that she actually has recognized him Winston is in awe, especially over such a rebellious and radical statement as "I love you." To describe his week as a "restless dream" is very fitting, because he finds it hard to believe that this event actually took place; the dream aspect, and it is restless because he spends it week anticipating what Julia will do next.
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