Explain the all character of a room.With a view by .Em foster
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The first part of the novel is set in Florence, Italy, and describes a young English woman's first visit to Florence, at a time when upper middle class English women were starting to lead more independent, adventurous lives. Miss Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her overly fussy and priggish but often ineffective older cousin and chaperone, Miss Charlotte Bartlett. The novel opens with their complaints about the the pension where they are staying, the Pension Bertolini, at which rooms with a view of the River Arno had been promised, but which instead overlook a drab courtyard. One of the guests at the pension, Mr Emerson, interrupts their "peevish wrangling" by spontaneously offering to swap rooms, since he and his son George both have rooms with good views of the Arno, and offered, "Women like looking at a view; men don’t." Mr Emerson's offer causes Miss Bartlett some consternation partly because she looks down on the Emersons because of their unconventional behaviour, and partly because she fears that acceptance would place her and her young cousin under an "unseemly obligation." She decidedly rejects the offer. However, another guest at the pension, an Anglican clergyman named Mr Beebe, assures Miss Bartlett that the Emersons only meant to be kind, and persuades the two women to accept the offer.
The following day, while Charlotte rests in the pension, Lucy decides to spend a "long morning" in the Basilica of Santa Croce, accompanied by another guest, Miss Eleanor Lavish, a novelist, who promises to lead her on an adventure. The older woman immediately takes away Lucy's Baedeker guidebook, which, she says, only touches the surface of things. She will show Lucy the "true Italy". But on the way to Santa Croce, chattering away, the two take a wrong turn and get lost. After drifting for hours through various streets and piazzas, they finally make it back to the square in front of the church only to have the novelist abandon Lucy in pursuit of an old man who, she says, is her "local colour box".[1]
Inside the church, Lucy meets the Emersons again. Although their manners are awkward and they have been treated rather coolly by many of the other guests of the pension, Lucy finds that she likes the Emersons, and repeatedly encounters them in Florence. One afternoon while touring Piazza della Signoria, Lucy and George separately witnesses a murder. George Emerson sees she is dizzy, and catches her as she faints. When she recovers, she asks him to retrieve some photographs that she dropped near the murder site. George finds them, but out of confusion, throws them into the river because they were spotted with blood, and confesses why to Lucy; Lucy observes how boyish George is. As they stop to look over the River Arno before making their way back to the hotel, they have an intimate conversation.
After this, Lucy decides to avoid George, partly because she is confused by her feelings, and partly to keep her cousin happy. Miss Bartlett is even more wary of the eccentric Emersons, since hearing a startling comment made by another clergyman, Mr Eager, who says that Mr Emerson, "murdered his wife in the sight of God."
Later in the week, a party made up of Mr Beebe, Mr Eager, the Emersons, Miss Lavish, Miss Bartlett and Lucy make their way to Fiesole, located on a scenic height above Florence, in carriages driven by Italians. At first the driver is permitted to invite a woman he claims is his sister onto the box of the carriage to accompany them. But later, when they sit closer and he kisses her, Mr Eager promptly requires that she leave them. In another carriage, Mr Emerson remarks how it is defeat rather than victory to part two people in love.
Wandering about in the high fields after abandoning Miss Lavish and Miss Bartlett to their gossip, Lucy searches for Mr Beebe, and asks in awkward Italian for the driver to show her where everyone is. Misunderstanding, he leads her to a field where George is admiring the view. Overcome by Lucy's beauty amongst a field of violets, he takes her in his arms and kisses her passionately. However, they are interrupted by a shocked and upset Charlotte, who is ruffled mostly because she has explicitly failed her duty as a chaperone. Lucy promises Miss Bartlett that she will not tell her mother of the "insult" George has paid her. The two women leave for Rome the next day before Lucy is able to say goodbye to George.