Probably his most important novel is Howards End, but its meaning has rather shifted over the years. In this, Forster failed, and so his books remain necessary. He is in the not unusual position for a novelist of hoping that changes in society will make his novel unnecessary. As a novelist he loves the rules that mean that Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson should not marry that Maurice and Alec have to disappear from society that Aziz and Fielding cannot be friends. Laws against sexual connection and artificial conventions against associations across race or social levels are Forster’s subject. He saw, above all, both that people need to be with each other, and that they will constantly put up barriers to prevent these connections.
Forster goes on telling us about our lives because of where that prediction sprang from. An exact technological prediction is remarkable by itself.
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