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arielzeit 's review for:
A Room With a View
by E.M. Forster
I so love this book. Forster writes like an angel and I'm surprised to find how modern he is, what a feminist, in re-reading. All the good lines in the movie come from the book. The biggest difference is that the Emersons' atheism is made more of in the book, that religion is set up as the greatest obstacle to an unselfconscious life of the body, of love and nature. And in the end, Lucy's family doesn't come around. Because on some level, this is the fantasy of a gay man imagining what if he obeyed the dictates of his nature and married a man whom he loved instead of a woman he didn't love (the only option available to him). So much of this book makes more sense now that I understand Forster's own closeted homosexuality and how he suffered from it.