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Becoming gay in E.M. Forster's 'Maurice.'

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From: Papers on Language & Literature
Date: 19930101
Author:Harned, Jon

E.M. Forster avoids socially accepted beliefs about homosexuality in 'Maurice' to allow his characters to create a new sense of what being gay is rather than allowing themselves to be defined by a disapproving culture. Forster neither supports homosexuality as a permanent nor as a exclusive sexual orientation, having one character become gay, one character become heterosexual after being gay and one character who is bisexual. The Freudian definition of homosexuality is also avoided through Maurice's overt masculine interest in sports and his relationship with his father.

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