"Write it down and I'll sign it-- anything! Not room 101!" (page 236) After this quote, we are never told what room 101 acutally is. This then causes the reader to constantly wonder and anticipate what will be in that room. This quote represents only a small portion of suspense the author uses throughout the entire second half of the book. Once Winston joins the "Brotherhood" (or he thought he joined it), I got the feeling that somehow they were now going to overturn the Party. But shortly afterwards, he is caught by the thought police, and the rest of the book is his conversion from humanity to a heartless member of the party. However, the suspense is created because throughout the whole second portion of the novel, I thought somehow Winston would triumph and not just be like all the other people who went through the conversion process. So I keep thinking this throughout the novel, but then I reach the end and see that the Party had won. Although he says he "won the victory over himself", he truly lost it and allowed the party to triumph over him. The suspense created throughout the whole second half of the book, however, causes the impact of this ending to be multiplied. We see his defeat and it really almost hurt to read how he had become. The suspense of the story is what made me feel this way at the end of the novel.