Irony In Lucy By Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid’s novella Lucy describes the opposing forces between comfort and familiarity and discomfort and uncertainty. Kincaid uses various literary devices to describe the comfort she held in her old life, and the challenges she faces in the new one. In her narrative, Lucy uses various descriptors when talking about the general confusion and frustration she experiences in her new home. Her uncertainty is expressed when she says her future in her new home is like “a gray blank” (42). In reminiscing on her previous life, she looks back with a sense of sombre, melancholic, nostalgia: “But now I, too, felt that...stood there” (55-57). Lucy doesn’t imagine herself in this new world of hers, and longs for her old life in the tropics. Along