What were the conditions in which women lived? I asked myself; for fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Which statement best conveys how Woolf achieves her purpose in this excerpt?

A. She uses a simile to show how women's potential has gone untapped throughout history.
B. She asks a question to show her thought process in trying to understand why so few women wrote fiction.