No Question About It

A Room With A View is definitely a bildungsroman. E.M. Forster's book focuses extensively on one character, Lucy, and the way she changes through different life circumstances: travel, adventure, hardship, death, love, relationships with family and friends, etc. There are few scenes that do not focus on Lucy specifically; even is she is not present, the conversation and events still involve her. From the beginning of the book to the end we see major growth in her. 

At the beginning of the book, I assumed Lucy was much younger than she actually is. She acts that way and is treated that way. There is always something different about her -- something that's forcing her outside of the box of English social conventions -- but she is first presented as a somewhat eccentric, though beloved, child. The second half of the book presents her clearly as a woman of marriageable age who is taking steps to become fully herself and to grow up. Her defiance to her family's ways and to Cecil's attempts to control her show independence and strength of character. I consider the scene in the square where the man dies in front of her and the scene where she breaks off her engagement as the most obvious turning points for her.