All about Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

I think I was mainly drawn to this story because of the author's name.  I don't know anyone named Jamaica, but the thought of someone having the name Jamaica simply intrigued me.  So let's talk Jamaica's story "Girl."

The beginning of a story is very important in general, but Jamaica's story doesn't seem to have a distinct beginning, middle, and end.  It's simply one big paragraph with important advice of a woman passed down from mother to daughter.  In fact, the entire story is basically one sentence with two breaks caused by questions from the daughter.  The pieces of advice are separated by semi colons, and there are italics for when the daughter says something.

I thought the story or prose whatever it may be was very interesting and enjoyable.  Although it was short, I did read it a few times because these short pieces of advice have so much impact and how so much about the mother and daughter.  The reader gets the idea that their poor, that the mother worries her daughter will become a slut, and the mother is teaching her daughter how to become a woman for her future husband.  Kincaid seems to want to express what her mother or what a mother teaches her daughter in the country that she came from.  She also shows the relationship they have, even though in some points it doesn't seem very nice.  Kincaid does a great job at expressing the characters, the settings, and the "plot" of the story through advice from her mother.  She also shows the amount of work a young woman goes through with the constant pieces of advice and pressure the daughter carries all through Kincaid's prose.