Winston survives all the way to the end of George Orwell’s 1984. The end of the story finds Winston at the Chestnut Tree Café, sitting by a chess board and drinking gin. A number of memories appear in his head. … It was a memory of joy, and Winston “pushed the picture out of his mind.

What happens to Winston Smith at the end of 1984?

In the final moment of the novel, Winston encounters an image of Big Brother and experiences a sense of victory because he now loves Big Brother. Winston’s total acceptance of Party rule marks the completion of the trajectory he has been on since the opening of the novel.

Was Winston vaporized?

In the end, Winston was vaporized. He looks forward to his execution in the last lines of the novel, and O’Brien had promised that Winston would be lifted clean out of the stream of history, deleted from all records and all memories. Winston just had to be “reeducated” first.