History Literature / ARoomWithAView

The story was adapted by Creator/MerchantIvory into an award-winning 1985 film starring Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/JulianSands, Dame Creator/MaggieSmith, Creator/JudiDench, Creator/DenholmElliott and Creator/DanielDayLewis. It has also been made into a stage play, a BBC radio series, and a 2007 film.

The story was adapted by Creator/MerchantIvory into an award-winning 1985 film starring Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/JulianSands, Creator/MaggieSmith, Creator/JudiDench, Creator/DenholmElliott and Creator/DanielDayLewis. It has also been made into a stage play, a BBC radio series, and a 2007 film.

* UngratefulBastard: Downplayed. When Mr. Emerson steps in to offer to swap hotel rooms with Charlotte and Lucy so that they will have a view of the river, Charlotte curtly refuses, and deems it impolite of him to offer, thinking that he only did it to make the ladies feel indepted to him and his son.

The story was adapted by Creator/MerchantIvory into an award-winning 1985 film starring Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Julian Sands, Creator/MaggieSmith, Creator/JudiDench, and Creator/DanielDayLewis. It has also been made into a stage play, a BBC radio series, and a 2007 film.

The story has been adapted by Merchant Ivory into an award-winning 1985 film starring Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Julian Sands, Creator/MaggieSmith, Creator/JudiDench, and Creator/DanielDayLewis. It has also been made into a stage play, a BBC radio series, and a 2007 film.

''A Room With A View'' is a 1908 novel written by Creator/EMForster.

!!''A Room With A View'' contains examples of the following tropes:

''A Room With A View'' is a 1908 novel written by E. M. Forster.

The story has been adapted by Merchant Ivory into an award-winning 1985 film starring HelenaBonhamCarter. It has also been made into a stage play, a BBC radio series, and a 2007 film.

* RomanticRunnerUp: Cecil Vyse. Lucy finds him to be stuffy and boring, as much as she tries to convince herself otherwise; she discovers that [[spoiler:she has been in love with George Emerson the whole time.]]

'''''A Room With A View''''' is a 1908 novel written by E. M. Forster.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The 2007 film substitutes its own epilogue for Forster's, having [[spoiler:George [[HappyEndingOverride die in the First World War.]]]]
* BettyAndVeronicaSwitch: A gender-flipped example. Progressive and unconventional George Emerson is initially the Veronica; he kisses Lucy passionately without any of the "proper" courtship that Cecil Vyse (the initial Betty) goes through. [[spoiler:However, George turns out to be the suitor who is far more suited to Lucy and more considerate of what ''she'' wants.]]

* BrutalHonesty: A trait of Mr. Emerson, as described in the very first chapter. It plays a crucial role near the end of the story when Mr. Emerson delivers a long and impassioned speech to Lucy about [[spoiler:how obvious it is that she loves his son George and is in denial of it]]; he is willing to shock and upset her to an extreme so that she will wake up to herself.

* DeathByAdaptation: The 2007 film kills off [[spoiler:George Emerson]] in the epilogue.
* DisposableFiance: Cecil Vyse is somewhere between the Minor Flaws and Bland Perfection subtypes. His obnoxious "minor" flaws are warning signs that he would [[spoiler:see Lucy more as a possession than a person in her own right, as George points out.]]
* FirstGirlWins: Gender-flipped; Lucy met George first during her time in Italy, and [[spoiler:ends up with him.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Cecil Vyse suggests that the Emersons move into the cottage nearby, as a way to stick it to the landlord. [[spoiler:This action ends up bringing George and Lucy together, eventually leading Lucy to break off her engagement to Cecil.]]

* LoveEpiphany: When Lucy is preparing to flee to Greece after breaking off her engagement with Cecil, she runs into Mr. Emerson, who helps her to realise that [[spoiler:she has been in love with his son George the whole time, and that her proposed flight was a way to flee from her own feelings.]]
* MatronChaperone: Charlotte Bartlett is this to Lucy Honeychurch during their travels through Italy; she steps in to end the intimacy after George kisses Lucy in the violet field. [[spoiler:Lucy finds out that Charlotte told the novelist Eleanor Lavish of the kiss, when Cecil reads aloud a suspiciously similar scene from a romance novel by Miss Lavish.]]

!!''A Room With A View'' contains exampls of the following tropes:

* DisposableFiance: Cecil Vyse is of the "Minor Flaws" subtype, although his obnoxious "minor" flaws are warning signs that he would [[spoiler:see Lucy more as a possession than a person in her own right, as George points out.]]

* DisposableFiancee: Cecil Vyse is of the "Minor Flaws" subtype, although his obnoxious "minor" flaws are warning signs that he would [[spoiler:see Lucy more as a possession than a person in her own right, as George points out.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Cecil Vyse brings the Emersons move into the cottage nearby, as a way to stick it to the landlord. [[spoiler:This action ends up bringing George and Lucy together, eventually leading Lucy to break off her engagement to Cecil.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: The 2007 film substitutes its own epilogue for Forster's, having [[spoiler:George die in the First World War.]]

* FirstGirlWins: Gender-flipped; Lucy met George first during her time in Italy, and ends up with him.

* OutdoorBathPeeping: An example in which it is the ''men'' (Freddy, George and Mr. Beebe) bathing when Lucy, her mother and Cecil accidentally come upon them.

* ContrivedCoincidence: When the Emersons run into Cecil, who suggests that they move into a cottage near to where Lucy Honeychurch lives, unaware that they know each other.

* BrutalHonesty: A trait of Mr. Emerson, as described in the very first chapter. It plays a crucial role near the end of the story, when Mr. Emerson delivers a long and impassioned speech to Lucy about [[spoiler:how obvious it is that she loves his son George and in denial]], not caring how much he has to shock and upset her to get her to wake up to herself.

* CulturalRebel: Both Emerson men embrace forward-thinking ideals that are at odds with the Edwardian society around them, and have a disregard for the way things are done conventionally. In the 2007 film, George Emerson tells Lucy that his father is an atheist and a socialist.

* BettyAndVeronicaSwitch: A gender-flipped example. Progressive and unconventional George Emerson is initially the Veronica; he kisses Lucy passionately without any of the "proper" courtship that Cecil Vyse (the initial Betty) goes through. However, George turns out to be the suitor who is far more suited to Lucy and more considerate of what ''she'' wants.

* DisposableFiancee: Cecil Vyse is of the "Minor Flaws" subtype, although his obnoxious "minor" flaws are warning signs that he would see Lucy more as a possession than a person in her own right, as George points out.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Cecil Vyse brings the Emersons move into the cottage nearby, as a way to stick it to the landlord. This action ends up bringing George and Lucy together, leading Lucy to break off her engagement to Cecil.

* LoveEpiphany: When Lucy is preparing to flee to Greece after breaking off her engagement with Cecil, she runs into Mr. Emerson, who helps her to realise that she has been in love with his son George the whole time, and that her proposed flight was a way to flee from her own feelings.

* RomanticRunnerUp: Cecil Vyse. Lucy finds him to be stuffy and boring, and discovers that she has been in love with George Emerson the whole time.

The protagonist is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman travelling to Florence for the first time during TheEdwardianEra. She befriends the eccentric Mr. Emerson and his handsome, philosophical son George, and begins to feel confused about her feelings for the latter, especially when he kisses her in a violet field. When she returns to England, she begins an engagement with the conventional Cecil Vyse, who is very unlike George. However, soon she receives word that the Emersons have moved into the cottage next door…

* ContrivedCoincidence: When the Emersons run into Cecil, who suggests that they move into the cottage next door to where Lucy Honeychurch lives, unaware that they know each other.

The story has been adapted by Merchant Ivory into an award-winning 1985 film starring HelenaBonhamCarter. It has also been made into a stage play, a BBC4 radio series, and a 2007 film.

The story has been adapted by Merchant Ivory into an award-winning 1985 film starring HelenaBonhamCarter. It has also been made into a stage play, a BBC radio program, and a 2007 film.

The protagonist is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman travelling to Florence for the first time during TheEdwardianEra. She befriends the eccentric Mr. Emerson and his son George, and begins to feel confused about her feelings for the latter, especially when he kisses her in a violet field. When she returns to England, she begins an engagement with the conventional Cecil Vyse, who is very unlike George. However, soon she receives word that the Emersons have moved into the cottage next door…

The protagonist is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman travelling to Florence for the first time during TheEwdardianEra. She befriends the eccentric Mr. Emerson and his son George, and begins to feel confused about her feelings for the latter, especially when he kisses her in a violet field. When she returns to England, she begins an engagement with the conventional Cecil Vyse, who is very unlike George. However, soon she receives word that the Emersons have moved into the cottage next door…

The protagonist is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman travelling to Florence for the first time with her overbearing cousin. She befriends the eccentric Mr. Emerson and his son George, and begins to feel confused about her feelings for the latter, especially when he kisses her in a violet field. When she returns to England, she begins an engagement with the conventional Cecil Vyse, who is very unlike George. However, soon she receives word that the Emersons have moved into the cottage next door…

* CulturalRebel: Both Emerson men embrace forward-thinking ideals that are at odds with the Victorian society around them, and have a disregard for the way things are done conventionally. In the 2007 film, George Emerson tells Lucy that his father is an atheist and a socialist.

* ContrivedCoincidence: When the Emersons run into Cecil, who