The epigraph to EM Forster's novel Howardsend consists of just two words: "just connect". As economical as this gesture may seem, critics and interpreters have placed much emphasis on this succinct epigraph and the theme of connection in Casa Howard. Stephen Land, for example, cites a call for connection, in the sense of moving freely between the two Forsterian worlds: the two "sides of the hedge", the everyday world of social norms and the arcadian or paradisiacal world of individual self-conception. realization - has its roots in previous stories..." [1] He goes on to say that "each [character] must reconcile or connect for himself the range of conceptual polarities exposed by the story - prose and passion, seen and unseen, masculine and feminine , new and old" (Land, 165). Land reads the novel as a kind of compromise between these two worlds: the realm of social justice and the realm of the individual. Other critics have made similar gestures. James McConkey, first , feels that “Margaret will reconcile the human and transcendent realms so that she can live in harmony with the human; the voice perceives connection through its separation from both." [2] These critics seem to confuse "connection" with "reconciliation", they seem to read the novel as a triumph of humanism and social justice. True, the characters in Home Howard experience reconciliation at the end of the novel, but reconciliation occurs only when love leaves the novel, when the narrative ceases to be a bridge between two worlds "connection" decreases as the novel progresses, gradually loses its mythical meaning and transcendent. The only moment of "connection" referred to in the epigraph comes when... halfway through the paper... any remnants of the bridge between the paradisiacal world and the world of good manners and civic duty. The concept of connection is so degraded as to be unrecognizable.[1] The Heavenly Omnibus Will No Longer Stop at Howards End and Conventionality in Fiction by E.M. Forster. New York: AMS Press, 1990 (165 below). [2] James McConkey. The novels of EM Forster. New York: Cornell University Press, 1957 (79).[3] E. M. Forster. End Howard. New York: Penguin, 1986 (154). Cited below in parentheses.[4] E. M. Forster. "The Celestial Omnibus". E.M. Forster's collection of short stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952 (61). It seems prudent to note that this story was first published in 1911, a year after the publication of Howards End.