What did you like most about E. M. Forster's "A Passage To India"?

Question

Please explain yourself if you can.

Answer 1

I liked the juxtaposition of the two cultures. The reader finds himself understanding both points of view and at the same time seeing that bringing the two together is rather like mixing oil and vinegar -- although the mixture makes a marvellous salad dressing! Both sides makes assumptions: Dr Aziz accuses Mrs Moore of having failed to remove her shoes at the mosque when in fact she has done the proper thing: and later, when Dr Aziz has gallantly sacrificed his collar stud to his friend Dr Fielding he is criticised for having been careless over details of dress; Fielding is presumed by Dr Aziz to have married Miss Quested and therefore shunned by his old friend. Miss Quested seems to invent a story over events at the Marabar Caves which she later retracts, but this accusation sours relations between more than the people concerned: it leads to riots.

Answer 2

Part Two: The Caves
What exactly happens (if anything really does) in the Marabar Caves? What do the Caves mean or suggest within the novel? Are the Caves themselves symbolic for the alien otherness of India itself: complex, ungovernable, bewildering, enigmatic…?
Probably, but it's the hauntingly powerful description of the Caves in that part of the novel, and the way they affect Adela Quested that has remained lodged in my memory since I first read the novel decades ago.