During her trip to Italy, her eyes are opened to how good individuality felt and she gains a love interest in George. The former causes her to feel constrained while back in England, leading to her breaking up with Cecil and contributes to her desire to travel again. The latter leads to George and his father moving to Cecil’s villa, and George trying to win over Lucy despite the consequences. Though this initially ends up with George heartbroken, Lucy’s newfound freedom leads her to reconnect and elope with George, making their “happy ending.” To sum up, the locations in “A Room with a View,” by E.M. Forster, play a very important role to the story, and represent wildly different things. Florence, Italy represents an increase in individuality and spontaneousness, while Summer Street, England represents older, more conservative ideals and constraints. These two ideas end up conflicting with each other, causing the major conflict in the story, eventually leading to Lucy straying from her Victorian era beliefs, and adapting ideals closer to what she was exposed to in
During her trip to Italy, her eyes are opened to how good individuality felt and she gains a love interest in George. The former causes her to feel constrained while back in England, leading to her breaking up with Cecil and contributes to her desire to travel again. The latter leads to George and his father moving to Cecil’s villa, and George trying to win over Lucy despite the consequences. Though this initially ends up with George heartbroken, Lucy’s newfound freedom leads her to reconnect and elope with George, making their “happy ending.” To sum up, the locations in “A Room with a View,” by E.M. Forster, play a very important role to the story, and represent wildly different things. Florence, Italy represents an increase in individuality and spontaneousness, while Summer Street, England represents older, more conservative ideals and constraints. These two ideas end up conflicting with each other, causing the major conflict in the story, eventually leading to Lucy straying from her Victorian era beliefs, and adapting ideals closer to what she was exposed to in