The Issue of Class vs the Issue of Homosexuality

[Stephen]

As I was re-reading this and re-watching the film I was struck by how much class and crossing class boundaries was as much taboo as the homosexuality.

What do others think about this second taboo? Was it included to ameliorate the first or was it somehow a concept that once one (moral?) boundary is crossed others are easier to ignore?

[Donna]

The way that I see it, the book made the point that love is love. It transcends class, gender, and any other restriction people might place upon it, including being loved in return. The book is about being true to oneself and those around you, and not living a lie.

[Vicky]

I saw it like @Donna. I loved the book for the sweetness and the strenght with whom the character arrives to that conclusion, living his life, without drama, with serenity somehow, even if the topic was really corageous in 1914. I liked it because it' s a novel of formation and a love story, not a 'a thing about homosexuality', but smething about growing up, surely Mr. Forster' s masterpiece.