How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
[…] the gates of liberty seemed still unopened. [Lucy] was conscious of her discontent; it was new to her to be conscious of it. "The world," she thought, "is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them" (4.6).
Wandering through the city alone, Lucy begins to realize that she’s not happy with life as she knows it. However, she’s obviously not sure how to go about breaking away from that life.
Quote #5
This solitude oppressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong (5.2).
At this point in her life, Lucy is used to being told what to think and do – something that will have to change if she’s going to become an independent person.
Quote #6
"I don't know that you aren't. I connect you with a view—a certain type of view. Why shouldn't you connect me with a room?"
She reflected a moment, and then said, laughing:
"Do you know that you're right? I do. I must be a poetess after all. When I think of you it's always as in a room. How funny!"
To her surprise, he seemed annoyed.
"A drawing-room, pray? With no view?"
"Yes, with no view, I fancy. Why not?"
"I'd rather," he said reproachfully, "that you connected me with the open air" (9.126-132).
Cecil demonstrates a rather interesting and very brief moment of self-awareness here; his comment that Lucy connects him with a view-less room really hits the nail on the head. This is also a blaringly clear sign that Lucy and Cecil are really not meant to be – if he’s a boring room and she’s an exciting view, they can’t possibly belong to each other. After all, the novel isn’t called A Room AND A View…