That Lucy had gotten herself into near the book’s conclusion, lying to George by Once alerted to the term, I realized that muddle shows up throughout the novel. Sophiaĭescribed the confusion and disorder that was self-afflicted, but felt binding Emerson tells Lucy she has gotten herself into a muddle. Of the red hair and heavy eye makeup-let’s call her Sophia-told me that her It was over an al frescoĭinner in Florence that I found a fellow E. In hostels and cheap hotels, you make friends easily. When you’re young and traveling by train through Europe, staying That Kasey and I had adopted as our patron saint. Weighed less than 20 pounds, as mandated by Rick Steves, the budget travel guru What a summer-panini, novels, trains, my bestįriend, and all of my possessions crammed into a backpack that, even when full, I was as taken with the city’s food as I was with its architecture, and to thisĭay I remember the pistachio gelato I could buy on nearly every street cornerĮspecially the one with pesto, mozzarella, chicken, and the sweetest little Lucy Honeychurch, there was no romance in Florence without a view of the Duomo. The Pension Bertolini, when they were placed in rooms facing the courtyard. Lucy Honeychurch and cousin Charlotte believed they had been cheated out of at You could see a view of the Duomo from the window-the same view protagonist Novel, finishing it in our one-star hotel room, where, if you craned your neck, Indeed, I was on a train to Florence when I began the WITH A VIEW when I was 21 years old, while backpacking in Europe with myīest friend, Kasey. “We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows.” -George Emerson from A ROOM WITH A VIEW

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