Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of this probing pc of the English character. In this story of extreme contr: in values, social class, and cultural perspectives—an unconven romantic relationship leads to conventional happiness in a deli] social comedy. . .While touring Italy with her overbearing cousin, well-bred Honeychurch falls in love with handsome but unsuitable G Emerson, only to become engaged to haughty Cecil Vyse. But is lured away from the conventions of upper-middle-class Edwa society by her yearnings for the clerk she left behind. A Room a View satirizes the English notion of respectability—and re: Forster's most beloved novel and a twentieth-century classic.