The double standard "rule, or that it is unjust to apply the different people or groups"
The world continues to develop even double standards between men and women has yet to be reconstructed.
Domestic contact take central point of the work of Kincaid. In “Girl” story created from the couple page offers Kincaid, however direct to base stress. As a mother train her child to every stage of the right manners for a young woman, she was disturbed only twice, and then only for a short time, in caveat of her child
Like other stories Kincaid “Girl” is very short story and we can hardly tell to have a plot, while the reader can with easy see a affecting context in which this monologue could be extended. The main voice is that of the without a name mother the reader have to guess that the …show more content…
“girl” of the title is her daughter, although the relationship is never stated. Double the daughter voice break in mother to revolt against of her consequences, but the mother proceeding her pointing.
Mother is steered her daughter about how to lives as an adult woman, and many of her comments comprise practical opinion. In the firs article when the mother tells her daughter to put the washed clothes on the pile of white stone and to washed clothes on Tuesday, the readers understand that the setting of the story is not the USA. The speakers said to her daughter how to absorb salt fish, how to make pumpkin cake, how to iron shirt and trousers fathers correctly, how to grow okra, how to clean house and garden.
Also early in the beginning of the story the reader feels that her daughter is on the verge of puberty.
Direction mother to her daughter to “soak the cloth little” as soon as, it receives them reference to menstruation, set that fact. Throughout history many of the trends aimed at prevent mother – girl to became a “slut” mother apparently thinks she aspires to be. She lead her not to sing pop song in Sunday school, not to talk with boys for any reason, and not to eat anything on the street because it will insects follow her. This kind of council is mixed with commentary on the practical issues of cleaning and cooking, but the main motive of the speaker is to prevent her adult daughter from becoming “sluts” or at least perceived as whole. Mother also tells daughter about medicine for abortion and makes the observation that, if the direction of how to love a person does not work she should not regret giving
up.
The sexual mother’s advice mixed with community advice. She tells to her daughter to be kindness at someone she does not love, as well as to someone loves very much, and tells her how to avoid wrong mood.
Two and half page monologue is actually not contain the instructions for all this activity: instead the parallel position in putted from the “like it…”. Propose the ways the behavior of the adult models for children. Supposable the girl is watching and learning. At the same time the negative mothers tone means that she has slightly chance of her daughter grow into worthy woman so that the daughter just two protest create the story tension.
However the mother has the last word. When she ask her mother what to do if the baker will not let her check the freshness of bread, by squeezing it the mother wonders if her girl will “type of women the baker won’t let near the bead”