A Room With a View · Character
Mr. Eager
A resident English chaplain in Florence who pities poor tourists, arranges tasteful drives, and quietly blacklists a journalist who murdered his wife in the sight of God.
supporting
Also known as Presently Mr. Eager, The one Mr. Eager
First appearance: part i i the bertolini
As a supporting figure in A Room With a View, Mr. Eager is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Lectures on Giotto in Santa Croce; is interrupted by Mr.
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Mr. Eager moves through Florence as a man of private galleries and unhackneyed views, contemptuous of Baedeker and of the herd of his countrymen, yet fussily proprietary about who deserves to enter a Renaissance villa.
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- Social
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- Main characters and family
- Minor and background characters
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Lucy Honeychurch
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- Lucy Honeychurch
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- Lucy Honeychurch
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- In Santa Croce with No Baedeker
- Possibilities of a Pleasant Outing
- VI: The Reverend Arthur Beebe, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager, Mr. Emerson, Mr. George Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch Drive Out in Carriages to See a View; Italians Drive Them
- VII: They Return
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