How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
“Make Lucy one of us,” she said, looking round intelligently at the end of each sentence, and straining her lips apart until she spoke again. “Lucy is becoming wonderful—wonderful.”
“Her music always was wonderful.”
“Yes, but she is purging off the Honeychurch taint, most excellent Honeychurches, but you know what I mean. She is not always quoting servants, or asking one how the pudding is made” (11.17-9).
This obnoxious and somewhat creepy conversation between Cecil and Mrs. Vyse demonstrates exactly how snobby and class-conscious they are. Lucy is only “becoming wonderful” now because her identity as a Honeychurch is fading away, and they hope to complete the transformation from Honeychurch to Vyse fully.
Quote #8
The ghosts were returning; they filled Italy, they were even usurping the places she had known as a child. The Sacred Lake would never be the same again, and, on Sunday week, something would even happen to Windy Corner. How would she fight against ghosts? For a moment the visible world faded away, and memories and emotions alone seemed real (13.20).
The new and confusing feelings that plague Lucy transform even the most familiar of places, and make her old life seem foreign and almost dangerous to her. The “ghosts” that take over her life gradually are the feelings that she can’t come to terms with – her passion for George and her discontent with life as she knows it.
Quote #9
“I have never known you till this evening. I have just used you as a peg for my silly notions of what a woman should be. But this evening you are a different person: new thoughts—even a new voice—"
“What do you mean by a new voice?” she asked, seized with incontrollable anger.
“I mean that a new person seems speaking through you,” said he (17.35-7).
Though Lucy doesn’t want to admit it, Cecil is actually right for once. Lucy has found a new voice – and it sounds just like George. This makes us wonder how much she has truly come into her own at this point.