Review: A Room With A View

A Room With A View is a 1908 English novel by the author E.M Foster which was later on adapted into a1985 film produced by Merchant Ivory and won  various awards.

It tells the tale of a young girl, Lucy Honey crunch, which visits Florence (Italy) under vigilance from her cousin  and ends up finding love  with a young man named  George. Even though the story revolves around the main character's love story there is a lot of other things going on simultaneously. It is also about a girls journey and how the experiences she haves during the trip make her change herself. This change is driven by a constant struggle between old fashion Victorian values and the newer more liberal ones. While in Italy Lucy learns how distinction between classes is all an illusion, also her interaction with the Emersons teach her how there is still beauty inappropriateness.

As Lucy grows with this experience she is then confronted with one to reality and incapable of figuring out which one to follow. She is facing identity  doesn't know where she belongs since her heart tells her one thing  and her conscience another.

The title of the story is physically represented early in the story when they find that the room they had didn't have a view. The window is a symbolism since it is from that window where she spied on random people and identified them by stereotype.

The setting is also very important because there is a lot of political criticism behind the main tale. This story  takes place during a time where England was slowly leaving behind the old Victorian ways and passing to more liberal Edwardian ideals. This tension between these two is represented by the love tale between George and Lucy.