Talk:Howards End

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this novel is about gender relations there should be a section on that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.243.27.81 (talk) 01:36, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Gender relations?" That's a comic book understanding of ANY quality novel. You're not in school any more - there's no need to parrot back cliche's to a professor. Howard's End is not about gender relations. MarkinBoston (talk) 23:08, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The novel is indeed about gender relations, and other kinds of relations... saying it is about class relations, as the opening section does at present, is like saying that karamazov is about murder, which is nonsense. If there are no objections I'll alter the opening to give a better view of the book's subject matter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.85.242.191 (talk) 21:27, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There, I fixed it, only a year after I said I would. Also cut the bit about only connect from the plot summary, obviously only connect has multiple meanings but the context in which THAT only connect shows up has to do I believe only with the connection of disparate streams of thought within Margaret's mind, and not with relations with the wilcoxes (unless only secondarily)... and in any event that passage really doesn't make any sense in its (erstwhile) context in the wiki article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.225.233.13 (talk) 18:58, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to fix the plot summary as well (one of these days), whoever wrote it made the book sound like a soap opera.

Multiple adulteries, pregnancy.... it IS a soap opera - dressed up in literary finery. MarkinBoston (talk) 23:06, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

homage

Zadie Smith's On Beauty is a modern retelling of the novel, as well as an homage to it.

If this is the English pronunciation of 'homage', as I take it to be, the indefinite article required is 'a'. If the French pronunciation is intended, then 'an'. The conventions about the use of the indefinite article before words beginning with 'h' are related to the stressed/unstressed nature of the following vowel: a hospital/an hotel etc. (Pamour (talk) 20:16, 9 April 2019 (UTC)).[reply]