Perception( A Room With a View)

A Room with a view is a story about the love of a young  English-woman named Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson. This love story takes place in Italy, specifically in the city of Florence at the times of 1900’s. Lucy and her chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett, visited Florence for the first time. Once they arrive to Florence they stay at hotel when they meet the Emerson’s. After many situations between Lucy and George she had to go back to England an face her reality of marrying another man named Cecil.

The name “A Room with a View” symbolizes the perfect image that every tourist have when they travel to other countries. Here, we can see desire of having a view from their room that look like a magazine cover picture. This is a similarity that Jamaica Kincaid exposed in her essays of the differences of being an insider and being a tourist. The fact that Lucy and Charlotte wanted a room with a window that shows a great view, reminds us what Jamaica Kincaid was talking about of tourists in Antigua.

In the movie when Mr. Emerson was talking during the first scene he said one quote that explain the vision of the locals; “I don't care what I see outside. My vision is within! Here is where the birds sing! Here is where the sky is blue!.” Words that literally describe the point of view of the local people have of their country. Also we can see this in Kincaid’s essays when she describes the reality of the Antigua residents.  Other quote that support that point of view is when the Reverend said; "We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little...handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, Florence to Rome, quite unconscious of anything outside Baedeker. Their one anxiety to get done and flew and go on elsewhere else." This quote also shows what residents think about tourists.

            Other thing that I found interesting is the fact that tourists and residents have the same perception that turns to be what we called, stereotype. There was a part when Mr. Emerson mentioned that; “Women like looking at a view. Men don't.” Quote that for me result of a stereotype example. Also there was a moment after the fight at the plaza, when Lucy said; “I mean, Italians are so kind, so lovable, and yet at the same time, so violent.”, showing us another example of how people tend to stereotype by one impression.

           

            For me this movie was the perfect representation of what Jamaica Kincaid tried to explain in her essays. Also we can see a lot of aspects from Peter Roberts essay; “Identity”.