For Sally Morgan's mother, Gladys, and Nan, her half caste daughter, the secrets the author wants to tell are the cause of deep shame but the most complicated secret Sally along with Gladys are enforced to face up to is the prospect that Drake-Brockman might father both Nan as well as Sally's mother, Gladys (then Drake-Brockman is responsible for incest with a daughter). Nan's hush can be realized as a reply to shame and fright, for according to Roseanne Kennedy, Nan's narrative looks like the survivor's portrait, and for itself her testimony is a sort of analysis of suffering similar to the Holocaust survivors' testimonies.
There exist, nevertheless, another reason for Nan's silence. Nan's secrets are some source of influence within her family: she is esteemed as the "owner" of some particular information in the indigenous way, and the right to this information she's got must be esteemed by her granddaughter. According to the viewpoint of traditional Aboriginal thoughts concerning the transmission of information, the change in the book from the main storyteller, Sally, for her grandmother has further consideration.
In accordance with traditional indigenous custom, storytellers can just be partial followers of traditions and they are as well required to agree to other narrators. Sally Morgan's story makes a context for some narratives of Arthur, Gladys, as well as Nan to be written, and for the reason that they are the real keepers of the tale, their narratives appear in a succession which represents the postponement of narrative authority. Consequently, the novel rather truly ends with Nan's narrative. Again, this emphasizes the communal feature of the book.
The novel My Place is structured by the classic subject of the quest, and a trip that is embodied by both literal and figurative. Morgan's search for the way to her personal individuality through her genealogy and inheritance.