Lucy's "muddle" : A Room With A View

The novel “A Room With A View” portrays Lucy's “muddle”. Lucy is the heroine of the novel, who is an upper middle class young English woman that is still unformed at the start of the book. Forster uses the word "muddle" to describe Lucy's confused state of mind, during which process she will become a wiser and stronger woman. The muddle comes about when everything that she was taught in the past is suddenly put into doubt. It is one of the states which all go through during the process of growing up. Though Lucy’s muddle is scary and confusing, she comes out as her own woman, growing from indecision to an independent woman that knows what she wants and she takes it or leaves it.
During her journey, Lucy moves with difficulty through the old-fashioned values the ones she has grown up with live by, and opens up to new, more liberal ones. In this struggle Lucy copes to find and recognize her own ideas of what is true, and as she evolves around these ideas she matures. Her trip...