![]() Margaret and Helen, the two sisters who are the novel’s protagonists, are pretty much what would happen if Jane Austen’s Elinor and Marianne Dashwood had heard about the Women’s Movement, didn’t have an exhausting depressive mother and an annoyingly precocious sister to drag them down, and had gotten far friendlier with Mr Willoughby than nineteenth-century culture would have approved of (or, as it turns out, early twentieth-century culture).ģ. Don’t ask me what they are, I just know they’re profound.Ģ. ![]() This is all very sad and tragic and allows Forster to make some profound comments on the way that class works in the twentieth century. Because there’s three families, and two of them are rich enough and marry one another, and one is not. Some other stuff too, but people mostly seem to agree that it’s about class. ![]() And it seems like all the reviews, positive or negative, seem to more or less agree on a few main points:ġ. I didn’t have a whole lot to say about Howards End, so I decided to go away and read some reviews to see what other people are saying about the book. This book is #65 on my Classics Club list. ![]()
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