Lucy Gets Her Man

Throughout this book it seems that Lucy has gotten everything she has wanted. She got the trip to Italy, she got the room, she got the Italian adventure, she got the drive, she got the man that her mom would approve of, etc... But she never seems to be satisfied. Lucy always wants more and that is why she was never happy with Cecil. She knew that he could not give her the happiness that she really wanted. She wanted to be free and if she kept following the conventions of what her mom and class told her she should follow then she would always be repressed. This is evident in the fact that she constantly chose to play depressing music, go off on her own, and change her mind. Lucy was always attracted to those things that seem to grow on you, she did not like Beethoven at first but latter in life started to like it, she did not like the Emerson's until they grew on her and proved to her that they meant well and could entertain her. She also did not like the Miss Alan's and all their gossip, but then later in the novel she asks for them to be allowed to move into the vacant house and to go on their trip to Greece with them. It is understandable then why she would eventually realize that Cecil was not for her and she fell madly in love with George. George intrigued her in ways that Cecil could not. He loved her fully and was able to make his own decisions and not the ones that society, which is what Mrs. Honeychurch represented for Lucy, told him to make. Lucy recognized these things and that is why she chose him.