Mercado Negro
Existe um próspero mercado negro de produtos, incluindo alimentos engordados (como chocolate e manteiga), bem como uma abundância geral de carboidratos não saudáveis:
The wooden- seated carriage in which he travelled was filled to overflowing by a single enormous family, ranging from a toothless great-grandmother to a month-old baby, going out to spend an afternoon with 'in-laws' in the country, and, as they freely explained to Winston, to get hold of a little blackmarket butter.
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Chocolate normally was dullbrown crumbly stuff that tasted, as nearly as one could describe it, like the smoke of a rubbish fire. But at some time or another he had tasted chocolate like the piece she had given him. The first whiff of its scent had stirred up some memory which he could not pin down, but which was powerful and troubling.
Where did you get this stuff?' he said.
'Black market,' she said indifferently.
No livro, há apenas uma pessoa (nomeada) referida como gorda; O colega de trabalho de Winston, Tom Parsons.
Dado que Parsons, evidentemente, gasta muito do seu tempo jogando tênis de mesa, caminhadas e "outras atividades físicas", pode-se supor que sua propensão para a obesidade é como resultado da compra de comida do mercado negro e excedendo sua ração em da mesma forma que Winston gasta seu excesso de dinheiro em diários e canetas de fantasia.Parsons, Winston's fellow-tenant at Victory Mansions, was in fact threading his way across the room — a tubby, middle-sized man with fair hair and a froglike face. At thirty-five he was already putting on rolls of fat at neck and waistline, but his movements were brisk and boyish
Strivers + traficantes.
No geral, está claro que a pobreza e a fome no mundo de 1984 estão longe de serem universais. Alimentos de todos os tipos estão prontamente disponíveis, se você souber onde procurar e está disposto a pagar . Todas as pessoas no livro que estão com sobrepeso são típicas "strivers", empurrando e empurrando o caminho. Até mesmo os proletários conseguem se apossar de comida suficiente para manter um peso (in) saudável;Two bloated women, one of them with her hair coming down, had got hold of the same saucepan and were trying to tear it out of one another's hands.
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the way was blocked by an enormous prole and an almost equally enormous woman, presumably his wife, who seemed to form an impenetrable wall of flesh.
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It was only on very rare occasions that one saw inside the dwelling-places of the Inner Party, or even penetrated into the quarter of the town where they lived. The whole atmosphere of the huge block of flats, the richness and spaciousness of everything, the unfamiliar smells of good food and good tobacco
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Mais tarde, mesmo uma pequena mudança na posição resulta em Winston ter mais dinheiro do que ele pode gastar, o suficiente para permitir que ele beba em um estado de estupor em uma base bastante regular;As the gin rose in him he belched through purple lips. He had grown fatter since they released him, and had regained his old colour — indeed, more than regained it. His features had thickened, the skin on nose and cheekbones was coarsely red, even the bald scalp was too deep a pink