Despite Ansell's faintly misogynist warnings, he becomes engaged to her. After Gerald‘s sudden death in a football match, Rickie idealizes Agnes, through whom he imagines that he has glimpsed true passion. He has literary aspirations (his short stories, Arcadian pastoral fantasies, are remarkably like Forster's own), but is also attracted by Agnes Pembroke, the conventional but beautiful sister of a schoolmaster friend and protector, and by her handsome, athletic, ex-bully fiancé Gerald. Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and congenitally lame young man, orphaned at the age of 15, escapes from the misery of suburban life and the bullying of public school to Cambridge, where, like Forster himself, he finds sympathetic friends, chief amongst them Ansell, a grocer's son. ![]() ![]() ![]() Longest Journey, The (1907), a novel by E. M. *Forster.
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