Everything I ever learned about marriage I learned by watching my parents. Once, talking with my father, he instructed, “when you get married you have to lose the me and you mentality. There is no my wants, my dreams, my goals…only ours.” Perhaps all the poets and writers of our time have sought to find answer to simply put. Throughout the work, at the heart of Lucy resides a desire to find a husband which she can stand beside (not behind). Forster writes, "[Lucy] desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved” (108). The modern world has thrown out old romantic visions of marriage as a union between two people consumed by a living force we call love. But perhaps for all its mocking, we moderns still desire to love deeply and to be loved deeply. The social constraints placed upon Lucy which attempt to deter her from true love are not unlike the rational, mental barriers placed upon people today. Yet no matter how hard the Miss Bartletts and Mr. Vyses try, man cannot seem to lord over love. What George calls fate, Forster displays as the destiny of man: to be driven to find love, the source of the only true happiness in life.
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