1. It could be said that E.M. Forster is, at least in this novel, preachy--that he spends time telling the reader the right way to behave in life. Assuming that it is true that he is preachy, can you explain how being preachy does not ruin this novel?
2. Why do you suppose Lucy tells Cecil that she is not in love with anyone else (418), if she is really in love with George Emerson?
3. The narrator says that Lucy joins the ranks of people who like Charlotte Bartlett into the army of those who have sinned against the gods of love (Eros) and wisdom (Athene) and that they will be avenged. Explain.
4. A the end of chapter 16, the narrator announces that Lucy broke off her engagement with Cecil, and then in chapter 17 presents the scene in which she does. A more conventional approach would have been to right to the break-up scene, without mentioning the end of the scene first. Why this order?
5. In what sense is Geerge Emerson responsible for Lucy's breaking up with Cecil?
