Virginia Woolf's class bias can be seen as one that is towards the wealthy upperclass. Throughout her narrative she places stress upon the fact that "intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years mearly, but from the beginning of time." How now can a woman gain the material things necessary for intellectual freedom? The same way anyone of us gains materials, …showed first 75 words of 350 total…

…showed last 75 words of 350 total…that she me means all women, and the truth of the matter is that only women belonging to the middle and lower class have been considered poor. The women of the upper luxury class have always had much more things at their disposal when compared to what the lower class women had. Woolf's word choice plays a crucial role in establishing the long lasting control and bondage that women were subjected to by the men.