A Room With a View

A Coming of Age Story of a Young Woman "We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things, because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm,yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine." ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View In E.M. Forster's A Room with a View, a young woman longs for independence and freedom from the constrictions of being a woman at the beginning of the 20th century. In this novel, Lucy Honeychurch is wooed by two gentlemen and she must decide to marry for love or money.