Howards End
Howards End,a novel by E. M. Forster , published 1910 , deals with personal relationships and conflicting values.
On the one hand are the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and their brother Tibby, who care about civilized living, music, literature, and conversation with their friends; on the other, the Wilcoxes, Henry and his children Charles, Paul, and Evie, who are concerned with the business side of life and distrust emotions and imagination. Helen Schlegel is drawn to the Wilcox family, falls briefly in and out of love with Paul Wilcox, and thereafter reacts away from them. Margaret becomes more deeply involved. She is stimulated by the very differences of their way of life and acknowledges the debt of intellectuals to the men of affairs who guarantee stability, whose virtues of ‘neatness, decision and obedience…keep the soul from becoming sloppy’. She marries Henry Wilcox, to the consternation of both families, and her...
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