Forster asserts through the romance between George Emerson and Lucy Honeychurch that the country of Italy is not really a place for Italians. Throughout the first section of the novel, there are thoughts directed towards the Italians labeling the native people as "illbred" and "bestial."
The fact that the speaking characters in this novel are, in fact, English vacationers into Italy following a travel guide in order to have the perfect Italian vacation shows an irony within Forster's writing that exposes the shallowness of the characters and the futility of British imperialism in the turn of the century. While he would go more in depth with this theme in his other novels--_A Passage to India_ for example--, Forster here shows that the image of an Italy that can be commodified and souvenired is idiotic.
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