Within the novel, A Room With a View, Lucy struggles to identify who and what kind of a person she truly is. She must understand herself before she can move forward with her life and Italy seems like the perfect place to do so, being a new perspective to the life that she is living. Lucy travels to Italy from England without even thinking that she might evidently find herself. She starts to feel as if she is being tied down by what people expect her to do and how people expect her to think. Italy allowed Lucy to meet impactful, people such as the Emersons along with being able to explore her mind without a baedeker, which forced her to drift away from the opinions of society and become less of a restrained and independent young woman.
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Emerson and George she is expected to hold back and be a polite lady while at the same time trying to avoid communication due to the social classes. George and Mr. Emerson are clearly of Lower class than Lucy and back in this time period it was almost unheard of that 2 classes would interact with each other. Lucy becoming an independent woman begins to not care what people will think if she happens to talk to someone of lower class. She develops her own opinion that she has shielded for a very long time. Lucy does have the opportunity to abandon George but she chooses to stay. The Emersons give Lucy something that Charlotte and Mrs. Lavish can not give her. They give her a radiant, new perspective of the world. They give her excitement that she has never experienced before, because all her life she has been told exactly what to do and when to do it. The feeling of rebellion keeps her going, it adds the fuel to the engine to keep her going. Lucy begins to gain feelings for George and she cannot help but to interact with him. George later kisses her which provides proof that Lucy no longer has a care in the world about whether or not she is doing the right thing. She finally chooses to follow her heart and think independently. In the end, only one knows what is right for themselves and Lucy proves that to the
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Emerson and George she is expected to hold back and be a polite lady while at the same time trying to avoid communication due to the social classes. George and Mr. Emerson are clearly of Lower class than Lucy and back in this time period it was almost unheard of that 2 classes would interact with each other. Lucy becoming an independent woman begins to not care what people will think if she happens to talk to someone of lower class. She develops her own opinion that she has shielded for a very long time. Lucy does have the opportunity to abandon George but she chooses to stay. The Emersons give Lucy something that Charlotte and Mrs. Lavish can not give her. They give her a radiant, new perspective of the world. They give her excitement that she has never experienced before, because all her life she has been told exactly what to do and when to do it. The feeling of rebellion keeps her going, it adds the fuel to the engine to keep her going. Lucy begins to gain feelings for George and she cannot help but to interact with him. George later kisses her which provides proof that Lucy no longer has a care in the world about whether or not she is doing the right thing. She finally chooses to follow her heart and think independently. In the end, only one knows what is right for themselves and Lucy proves that to the