Answer: He was thinking that there was a riot, but the women are fighting over the saucepans.
Explanation:
In George Orwell's ''1984'' we can find a situation when Winston is seeing the women in the streets and he is noticing that something is not right, he was thinking that there is a riot because of the commotion that he was hearing.
Actually, women were fighting because of the saucepans that someone has selling and they were difficult to get.
And after that: