“Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and lie here we, Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
This quote is a song played in the Chestnut Tree Café. Winston first hears it when he is there and sees Rutherford, Aaronson, and Jones there. The three men were convicted of thought crime and had been gone for some time. After the song the men burst into tears. Winston next hears this song after he had been convicted of thought crime and is in the Chestnut Tree Café, he also cries. The song applies to Winston and Julia because they each sold each other out in the end of their interrogation. The same thing must have happened to Rutherford, Aaronson, and Jones.
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