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Similar to Caroline, I felt the same way when I reading On Beauty. I felt that I didnt have to analyze too hard, or be more imaginative than what the author prescribe. With Howard's End my imgination had to constantly reset the setting to place me back in time. I had to draw from knowledge i've acquire about this that period in prior to reading it. I was constantly feeling in on the gaps myself, and feeling a little inadequate at it. These gaps were what Forster presumed the readers should know.

Furthermore, after contrasting On Beauty to Howard's End I feel Forster's lack of emotional communication between readers and characters is even more conspicious than it was prior to reading On Beauty. Though the characters in Howard's end expressed physical evidences of emotions, for some inexplicable reason i found them still very stoic, compared to Smith's characters.