Being Lucy HoneychurchIn EM Forster's novel A Room With A View, Lucy Honeychurch is the central character and heroine who is constrained by her social upbringing in a time of changes in society are widespread. Lucy is linked to other characters in the book that Forster wrote to represent the slowly diminishing Victorian era and she is introduced to characters who represent the accelerating approach of the Edwardian era. She's an ordinary young English girl, with an extraordinary vision of the beauty of the world around her and a wealth of untapped reserves of passion. Through the characters placed in her life, her unconscious passions and her central being, this novel shows the evolution of a young girl into a woman of purpose and choice. In the name itself, A Room With A View, Forster gives the reader insight into the fate of Lucy Honeychurch. It's a symbol. The room itself correlates with the boundaries of society in that it is small and isolated, people from each other in the name of societal hierarchy. Some rooms are big and expensive while others are small and dingy, but either way, there's a wall between them all. In Lucy's case, she is given a room with a view of a courtyard, which is never changeable and ordinary. What she really wants is the room with a view of the beautiful Arno River. It's similar to her life in that she's been given things that are mundane, safe, and boring, but what she desires is excitement and romance. Forester inserted a handful of characters to surround Lucy during this period of her life to demonstrate people's views and beliefs. this particular era to better understand its dilemmas. At a time when society was on the verge of change, there are people who try to refuse ...... middle of paper ...... and she would be amazed at what she could TO DO. The narrator describes Lucy's playing as a place where she is neither "rebel nor slave."(----) Her music is her escape and her first stepping stone into a world made up of her own choices driven by passion. Lucy Honeychurch is the classic good girl who wants to follow the rules imposed on her. However, through chance encounters and actions, she will veer off course and in turn gain a true glimpse of true social freedom and beauty. Although she is tossed between the person she should be and the person she wants to be, her growth throughout the novel shows us the progression from an insecure girl to a balanced woman. Through the influence of the people in her life and her own reserves of passion, Lucy Honeychurch finally taps into her true self and is able to find true excitement and true love.