Jamaica Kincaid

Women nowadays are not worried about society, women tend to behave more liberal and find happiness in self dependency. Women do not care how the world will criticized her daughter because both men and women sees each other equal. However, A while back, being a women was the toughest job.Women were just typical housewives who had to take care of her family and sometimes they had to self-sacrifice because she worries how the society will view her. In “The Girl,” the writer Jamaica Kincaid shows how a mother is training her daughter to get ready for adulthood. As she describes in the story, mother is being very controlling to her daughter. where women have to act and dress properly, set the dinner table right, how to smile at the one you like and so on. She points out by giving a list of the chores and how to behave in the story.While reading this short story, readers would find that back in the days girls were being pressured and
This whole story shows that a woman's place is in the house. “ Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry” (Kincaid 56). Here the mother is telling the daughter that this is the way to do chores correctly and there are many more examples on how to do the household work. “ this is how you iron your father’s khaki pants so that they don’t have a crease; this is how you grow okra – far from the house, because okra tree harbors red ants” (Kincaid 56).The story does tell that how to iron clothes, how to grow food but it does not tell us that how to have a successful career, how to work outside of the home. Nowadays, women believes in equal rights and as year goes by the thinking changes.They want to be educated and show that they are also comparable with the men, so there is no way that women just have to be only a