Italy versus England

From A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Italy represents passion, truth, and the body; England represents repression, manners, and the mind. Lucy's journey is between these poles.
Chapter 2

Lucy lost in Santa Croce without her Baedeker — symbolic of needing to see Italy without the tourist's guidebook.

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Chapter 6

Phaethon and Persephone, the Italian driver and his lover — pagan Italy mocking English chaperonage.

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