Question

Conclusion to the novel a passage to india

Answer 1

A Passage to India was more than ten years in the making, and Forster often despaired of completing it. Begun in 1913, shortly after he had visited India for the first time, it hung fire after the early chapters. The impact of the First World War and the experience of working in Alexandria changed his view of the world in important respects— after it, he said, he trusted people less and was quicker to impute cynicism—and it took him some time to catch up with such changes. When he returned to India in 1921 he took the pages of his unfinished manuscript with him, only to find that, as he said later, ‘as soon as they were confronted with the country they purported to describe, they seemed to wilt and go dead. … The gap between India remembered and India experienced was too wide’.Finally, encouraged by Leonard Woolf, he completed it, but with a feeling of relief rather than triumph:

I am so weary, not of working, but of not working: of thinking the book bad and so not working, and of not working and so thinking it bad: that vicious circle. Now it is done and I think it good.