It's got a lot, but a big part of why I am drawn to Howard's End is because the two sisters disagree when outside forces intrude, and the older one at first seems like she's conforming and favoring her husband but then, at the end of the story, she stands up to him and makes her sister the priority and he knows he's gonna get ditched, so even though he's older and so entrenched in his ways, he CHANGES. Ah. Yes. I felt it even more at the end of the mini-series, how his character changes.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/howards-end/episodes/
I still love the film...
" It is hard now to imagine how dangerous the novel seemed to some of its readers. The hypocrisy that Forster was illustrating had a buried meaning to him because of his own homosexuality, which he kept a secret, at least in public, until the posthumous publication of his novel Maurice, also filmed by Merchant-Ivory.
'Howards End' is of course lovely to look at. The old brick country house, not too grand, covered with vines, surrounded by lawns and flowers, is reached by big, shiny motorcars and occupied by people who dress for dinner. But this is not a story of surfaces.
What enrages Helen, and through her the audience, is that to be male and wealthy is to have privileges that the poor and the female are denied. Henry might have gotten Jacky pregnant, but if Jacky's husband dares get Henry's sister-in-law pregnant, he must be made to pay. Henry thinks he is dealing with a moral offense, but actually he is dealing with temerity: Leonard Bast must not be allowed to behave the way Henry Wilcox is entitled to, because, well, Leonard is poor, and there it is."
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https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-howards-end-1992
I must re-read the book soon!!!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38374795-howards-end
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