The Importance of Finding your Place

The word, place is a very strange word, in the sense that it has many definitions. So many in fact, that the actual, true definition can never be explained, as long as their are people living their life. Place is truly important to a person when they define who they are, and where you are can determine who they are. When someone questions their place, they could be questioning their physical place, but that's too unoriginal for life. The other question of place is where is the person mentally, emotionally, and spirituality. I feel in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Wolf has many questions of place that she is dealing with.

One passage from the book where she deals with those questions of place, head on, is when she is at Oxbridge. The forward in the book, written by Mary Gordon, she has positive things to say about Wolf, including

"...using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without."

When Gordon says this, it gives the impression that Virginia Wolf is a very well-rounded and educated woman, who knows how to work with what she is given. She strats describing that she on campus and seems that she is allowed anywhere because she is a smart woman. In the scene where she is wondering around campus of Oxbridge, she is denied entrance just because she is a woman. She feels belittled by this action, that she loses her train of thought. I think that this event was written specially because it shows that men who write need huge, famous libraries to write. While men need that, she learned to write and become famous from writing in her own house. She is writing about being an independent woman who should achieve what she wants. That belief is shattered when she is denied entrance. She goes back to the feeling of uselessness. As she continues to write of her experience she gives the demenor that , maybe she doesn't need the university to write well. Her place at the University breaks a new idea to her that a person doesn't need to be at the most sterotypical place. Though, she may not need the library, she does need a room to write and a solid income to prove to other people, back then, that her writing wasn't a waste of time. At one point, Mary Gordon, clearly states that her feelings of a female, fiction writer was "...her passion is for literature, not for universal justice."
I think the point that Mary was making was that, Virginia Wolf knew that the power of women was increasing, but this essay was just about her views on female writers.