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Overcoming the “Muddle”: Repression and Authenticity in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View
by Dana Mena Cueto During the climax of Forster’s celebrated novel A Room with a View, its main character Lucy Honeychurch excuses her actions and dishonesty towards her own family by explaining to Mr. Emerson, “please not, Mr. Emerson—they trust me” to which he replies: “But why should they, when you have deceived them?” (Chapter…