Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
Summary: Jewish Afro-Caribbean author Jamaica Kincaid was born in Antigua in 1949 when it was still a British colony. She is of Afro-Caribbean descent. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson was her legal name. In "Girl," a theatrical monologue by Jamaica Kincaid, the mother of the "girl" gives advice to her daughter.
The narrative is made up of a series of social and practical instructions aimed at assisting the title character in becoming a respectable woman. The mother explains to the girl how decent grownups should act, saying, "This is how..." constantly. The mother emphasizes sex in especially because she is worried that her daughter will embarrass her by becoming a promiscuous lady. The mother dismisses the daughter's apparent objections to some of her mother's suggestions. While "Girl," like Kincaid's other short tales, is incredibly short and hardly qualifies as having a storyline, the reader may readily envision a dramatic setting in which this monologue might be uttered. The reader must presume that the "daughter" is speaking in the unidentified mother's central voice.
In a nutshell, the instructions imply that the ladies reside in a low-income, rural environment where conveying such facts is required for everyday survival; the mother also teaches her daughter how to lead a fulfilling life. The following time, her mother chastises her and seems to believe that her daughter doesn't grasp what she is teaching her about choosing fresh bread. even in our society, the mother always instructs her daughter about the lessons of morality, humility, gratification, relationship, etc., to make their forthcoming era so much better.