Thrown through the View

I was not a fan of three of the main characters of this book, Lucy, Lucy's mom, and Cecil, however, I can understand why these characters were created this way. They all seemed superficial, fake, selfish, and ultimately ignorant in relations with others. The mother in particular, was my least favorite. Although, when I look back at these characters and their relationship with one another I can seem to understand what Forster was trying to do with them. The mother represents the haughty wannabe upper class British society and she forever pushes her daughter and everyone else she "believes in her mind" to have societal place over. She pressures her daughter to marry the man who will move her up in the world, she pressures her boy to be the proper gentlemen and become a doctor, she strikes me as the person who would purchase nice things but never use them for fear of them getting ruined, she is the person who wants everyone to see how well off she and her family is and keeps up those pretenses to an absurd level. Yet some how despite all of her faults Lucy is able to overcome her mother and others, and is able to allow herself to grow up and be thrown through the window. She has all these things holding her back and telling her how to act, she finally becomes sick of it all and gives it up. She gets lost both literally and metaphysically in her mind and is able to overcome it. She realizes what she wants and that she was old enough to take it and so she did. She is still a bit afraid and that is why she seems to cling to George a bit tightly now, he is her firm hand there to catch her if she falls, but she is still free and flying out on her own which is what she was searching for in her life and in Italy.