In Forester’s A Room With a View the story takes place in two settings, one in Summer Street, England, the other Florence, Italy. These locations are entirely different in their ideals. Florence is a very optimistic environment where you can be hopeful and immersed in what is going on. This is the polar opposite of Summer Street, here Lucy finds life to be boring and dull where you can go a day and not miss a thing. While she prefers one more than the other she finds the upside to both settings and uses the things she sees and changes the way she lives. The majority of the story takes place in Florence, Italy. During this time Lucy thinks and speaks a lot about the prior place Lucy lived, England. During the reader learns what the beliefs