intellectual" upper class living in London in the early years of the twentieth century. Being "liberal, idealistic and intellectual", they enjoy human relations above everything. They are highly educated and having no need to work for a living. They love cultures and interested in arts, music, literature and socialism. They enjoy having meetings with different kinds of people and exchange their ideas as the "intellectuals" In addition, Forster presents the Schlegels as people in the same class in which he belongs to.
             The next family is the Wilcoxes. The Wilcoxes have a different ideology to the Schlegels. They might not be different in terms of their status because they are both in the upper level in the English society. The Wilcoxes are led by Mr.Wilcox or Henry Wilcox and his wife Mrs.Ruth Wilcox. They have three children: Charles, Paul and Evie. The Wilcoxes mainly represents the pragmatic, materialistic aspect of the English upper classes. In fact, the Wilcoxes come from the two social classes. Mr. Wilcox and his three children represent people in business class, earning money from trading while Ruth Wilcox represent the gentry class. The Wilcoxes do not care about personal relations, they only care about money. They represent the materialistic businessmen who are lack of culture and relationships. They consider " a great outer life is a life in which telegrams and anger are count. Personal relationships are not supreme here".
             Mrs.Ruth Wilcox is the important figure in the novel. She primarily represents the connection between the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes. In fact, Mrs
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