Howards End
The Schlegels and the Wilcoxes, the house that outlasts them both, and the wych elm standing over it.
Two families, the intellectual Schlegels and the commercial Wilcoxes, are drawn together by a house in Hertfordshire and by the question of who should inherit England. Forster published it in 1910, and its epigraph, only connect, has been doing service for the whole novel ever since.
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Tracy Chevalier
The tree, and the tales surrounding it, represents a more organic and rural way of looking at the world, while Henry is more urban and modern. The two clash and, in the end, when it all falls apart and Margaret has to prop Henry up because his son is going to prison for having knocked over and killed Leonard Bast, there’s a resurgence of an older way of thinking.
Interview · March 2016
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