Firstly, love is presented as a force that represses but also one that can facilitate this resistance against repression. As critic Malcolm Bradbury affirms, A Room with a View “shows both continuity and conflict.” It explores how conventions in terms of love are simply carried across the generations, but also how they can be challenged. In A Room with a View, Lucy Honeychurch has two very varied romantic relationships. The first with Cecil whom, as George asserts, “should know no-one intimately, least of all a woman .” Perhaps this is indicative of his incapacity to form profound, meaningful relationships. Throughout their relationship, Lucy feels stifled by Cecil who rejects Lucy’s way of thinking in regards to love. Cecil’s notions on what