首先，Howards End的环境描写一定不能错过：
正在工业化中的雾都伦敦——
The deterioration of the London:
Just like ever more houses are torn down in order to build faceless houses to accommodate the faceless masses,
month by month the roads smelt more strongly of petrol,
and were more difficult to cross
and human beings heard each other speak with greater difficulty,
breathed less of the air,
and saw less of the sky.
Nature withdrew: the leaves were falling by midsummer;
the sun shone through dirt with an admired obscurity.
作者依然保持“积极态度”，运用irony + personification的形式也同时突出了London's breath-taking growth。
Still the narrator tells us that “London fascinates. One visualizes it as a tract of quivering grey, intelligent without purpose, and excitable without love; […] as a heart that certainly beats, but with no pulsation of humanity. It lies beyond everything: Nature, with all her cruelty, comes nearer to us than do these crowds of men.” (p. 84f.)
城市经济建设者们在urban slum中的生活：
Leonard Basts, a clerk who rent an flat and struggle for his living, after a while become even more “colourless, toneless [with] the mournful eyes above a drooping moustache that are so common in London.”
作者轻描淡写地imply大环境下working class的小个体所受的影响，可见英国知识分子们细腻而敏锐的社会洞察力和强烈的社会责任感。

另一边，再来看看知识分子对工业化的伦敦的态度：
London is presented as a place where people like the Schlegels “lead the life of gibbering monkeys [even if they] have something quiet and stable at the bottom.” (p. 61)
These last two qualities of quietness and stability are the necessary requirements for a different life and the missing things in the city. Margaret and Helen – who, since they have something quiet and stable in themselves, have not entirely lost contact with the earth and are able to recognize the illness that spreads in London – can still be saved.

另一边，再来看看知识分子对工业化的伦敦的态度：
London is presented as a place where people like the Schlegels “lead the life of gibbering monkeys [even if they] have something quiet and stable at the bottom.” (p. 61)
These last two qualities of quietness and stability are the necessary requirements for a different life and the missing things in the city. Margaret and Helen – who, since they have something quiet and stable in themselves, have not entirely lost contact with the earth and are able to recognize the illness that spreads in London – can still be saved.

其实，现实中，最可怕的不是城市建设的混杂，真正soul-quenching的东西，大概是rat race中炮灰们丧失的真我：
Due to these living and working conditions and the loss of contact with nature, people are dehumanized; they lose their individuality, they become crowds of faceless people easily replaceable.
但在这种加速进步的大环境下，如何要保持unadorned, authentic, pellucid spirituality，而不是dehumanized by the materialistic, commercialized, masculine, fast-paced, brutal power/money/status chase呢？
作者最后给出了一个引起争议的“天真”结局——将Schlegel姐妹安置于“世外桃源”般的霍华德庄园，延续"yeoman class"自由民的淳朴传统。

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