Girl By Jamaica Kincaid Essay

In most cultures, being a housewife is the most important role a woman can have. If a woman does not the needed skills they need to perform their duty, then they are not seen as real woman. Jamaica Kincaid’s poem “Girl” describes a young girl reciting the advice her mother gives her advice to be a respectable woman in society, take care of herself, and how to keep up her household once she is married. In the implied patriarchal society that they are in, the importance of feminine roles become the basis of how they will be perceived in their society. The narrator’s mother also has implications to the importance of sexual purity. Though it is written in the second person, it tells the story of womanhood and femininity within the first lines