Masters Reading Response to Room With A View

Italy is used as a setting in this piece. It takes place in a Hotel, and it kind of reminded me of the first few days of our stay as a matter of fact. For example, there is an issue among the guests in the beginning: in our stay here in Spoleto, we were waiting for one of the apartments to be ready, so we stayed in the hotel. The next thing was that Italy seemed as a place that allows people to find some sort of re-establishing factor. That was one of the cliches that we discussed in class the first day. What makes it that people think of this as a place for re-discovery? I believe it is the idea of the Renaissance and enlightenment. The enlightenment was the whole idea about discovering a new way of thinking, and Mrs. Lavish says that one doesn't come to Italy for niceness, but life. That was the way of thinking about traveling: you take the plunge to find life. This piece uses Italy as the typical finding of yourself, which is seen in the end when George and Lucy kiss. George contemplates her, as though seeing her in a new light. This is that Renaissance era thinking: finding a new way of seeing things, a new sort of beauty in the thoughts of the time. That's what I thought the importance of Italy as a setting was in "A Room with a View."