Compare The Artistic Community in The Diary of Anis Nin and The Mathematical Community in A Beautiful Mind

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each must fulfill a set of rights of passage that prove their value as individuals. They both must challenge their own comfort level by rejecting their comfortable environments and interacting in a way that is different than their previous nature.
In the case of Nin she distances herself from her husband, who is only an outside member of the elitist artistic group as more of a patron rather than a full-fledged member of the social circle. She must distance herself from not only her husband and her position as a woman but her relatively economically protected life by living the life of the starving artist.

"The woman artist sees at last the dawn of her achievement grow near. Then love slips his hand around her hand, she drops her pen and he leads her quietly away, murmuring: "Come away with me to watch the stars and the pale moon." That is why woman remains woman while man can be an artist." (Nin Oct 25, 1923 18)

Having established Nin's perception of her gender trap it ...

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