The Parsons Family

When Mrs. Parson asks Winston to clear her drain we get an interesting picture of the Parson family. The Parson home is smelly and cluttered, and the children are making tantrums over not being able to go to the hanging. After clearing the drain Winston is hit with a catapult from one of the older Parson kids; The younger ones dancing around him calling him a traitor and a thought-criminal. This event causes Winston to reflect on the family values that the party imposes on it's subjects. Parents are encouraged to love their children in an almost old-fashioned way, while children are turned systematically against their parents by means of organisations such as the junior spies. These organisations had a tendency to turn the children into ungovernable little savages, but the scary part Winston reflects, is the fact that this produces in them no tendency to rebel against the word of the party.