In Forster's novel, A Room with a View, Lucy Honeychurch, a young upper-class woman, visits Italy with her eldest cousin Charlotte. In their pension in Florence they are assigned rooms that overlook the courtyard. Mr. Emerson and his son George offer them their rooms; however, Charlotte is offended by their offer due to their lower class. He initially rejects the offer, but later accepts it when Mr. Beebe intervenes in the situation. Later, Lucy encounters two Italian men arguing. One man stabs the other and she faints, only to be saved by George. Upon their return home, he kisses her and Charlotte tells Lucy to keep it a secret. Once Lucy returns home to her mother and brother, Cecil Vyse, a man she met in Rome, proposes to her and she accepts. After many encounters showing Cecil's snobbish nature, Lucy breaks off her engagement that night; and with Mr. Emerson's encouragement, Lucy discovers that she loves George and marries him. Throughout the novel, the theme of transformation is shown through the change that Lucy and Charlotte go through. This theme is influenced by Forster's "light" and "darkness" throughout the novel because the light and darkness emphasize that Lucy's forward thinking is desirable over Charlotte's traditional thinking. The theme of transformation is influenced by Forster's "light" and "darkness" in the novel because they both highlight how Lucy's path in life is more favorable. At the beginning of the story, Forster reveals Lucy's character when she enters her panoramic room: “she opened the window and breathed the clean night air, thinking of the kind old man who had allowed her to see the lights dancing on the Arno. " (Forster, page 11). This sentence shows that Lucy is excited and open in her journey... in the middle of the paper... because both highlight how Lucy's modern attitude to life is desirable compared to the traditional thinking of Charlotte. Throughout the novel, Forster describes Lucy and George with "light"; this helps to show how falling in love with George is the best decision for her '"darkness" to describe Charlotte's character. This helps to show that Charlotte will not go against society's way of behaving; however, Charlotte was suggested to help George and Lucy reunite by having Lucy and Mr. Emerson speak to each other; this would mean that Charlotte could have escaped the "darkness" of society and entered the "light". Lucy and Charlotte have a much greater impact on readers..