Is Winston a Prole?

The proles are what became of pre-war Britain's vast underclass of working poor, peasants, social outcasts and destitute people. Winston was born into a slightly better social class and thus got to be a member of the Party.

Is Winston a party member?

Winston is an Outer Party member, which is basically this story's version of a middle class. As a records editor at the Ministry of Truth, his job is to literally rewrite history, revising old newspaper articles so they're in line with the Party's current vision of the truth.

Is Winston in 1984 a prole?

By the time Winston, the main protagonist in George Orwell's seminal novel of an autocratic dystopian futuristic society, 1984, decides to approach a prole, or proletariat, he has already grown disillusioned by the government and its increasingly obvious lies. ... "If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles.