Masters a room with a view

A room with a view is the kind of story which, if the intention is to market it to Americans or westerners in general, can only be set in Italy for two reasons. The first is that Italy is one of the few places in the world with an unspoken cultural guide book. This is to say that every American grows up with everything from cartoons to school to music telling them exactly what to see and how. In A Room with a View this constricting structure is an integral part of the characters both in how they conform to it, sometimes by breaking their native traditions, and how they break it to find what they have brought with them from home. Secondly it being a hub for travelers of all nationalities it allows the main character, Lucy Honeychurch, to encounter other types of a normal person. More importantly, however, she can see a fellow British national, George Emerson, without the dressings of their native culture but instead as another person. In the end A Room with a View is about taking the overly structured expectations, that only Italy can provide, and using them to learn and reflect more about your own native culture.