Lucy Honeychurch is a young woman raised in an upper-middle-class British family who has always made her decisions and opinions her own. Whether it's Miss Lavish, Miss Bartlett, or her Baedeker, there is almost always someone or something telling her what to do and what to think. Without being able to make decisions for herself, she hasn't been able to figure out what she likes, what she admires, or what she wants. She is innocent, confident and naive about the world and herself. His first real-world experience is when he visits Florence, Italy. She begins to find herself lost between the tiresome falsehoods perpetuated by pretentious upper-class society and her growing instinct for what is true and beautiful. His instincts are channeled primarily through playing the piano, his source of freedom and passion. Her music is where she gains the power to make decisions for herself. Another outlet for her new character is her confusing but growing passion for George, another member of the boarding house. Both her decisions and those of others have led her to remain alone in Piazza della Signoria where she begins to harbor a growing internal rebellion. Miss Bartlett's narrow and limited ideas about women's contribution to society, combined with the liveliness of Italy, launch a change in Lucy's attitude. approach to life. Miss Bartlett has planted in Lucy's mind the “eternal” concept that a woman should lead the life of the “medieval lady,” and thus far Lucy has sought to carry out the ladylike mission “of inspiring others to succeed rather than to achieve themselves". But as EM Forster says, the lady "becomes degenerate." Lucy thinks the “medieval lady” might change her mission because she loves the beauty of the wind, the view...... middle of paper......not getting stabbed is scary, but also because she realizes who for the first time has made decisions that go beyond the social context in which she grew up. She knows that living in this new layer of the world to which she has been awakened means leaving the security of what she has been taught. In a last attempt to quell the scary, impulsive feelings she's been feeling, she tells George "how quickly these accidents happen, and then it's back to the old life," but he tells her that he "probably wants to live." And George is talking about living a “live” life just like the men the “medieval lady” admires. Although the murder was frightening and the sexual sensations were overwhelming, they were part of this new exotic life that Lucy unquestionably desires. The scene ends with her contemplating the river which was “an unexpected melody to her ears.”