Jamaica Kincaid's Girl

In the story, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, the idea and tone come from a mother, who raises her child on her own past experiences and control of being a woman in her time and tradition, she is a guide to her own daughter in this changed world, to discipline her daughters new ways and views on society and their culture on how it used to be. The author shows in the story how she thinks the women should dress, behave and the jobs they should do. When it comes to the tradition times like when her mother was brought up in, being ladylike was a big deal. Her mother lets her know how to be a ladylike, and also warns her several times on how not to dress and not to act like your showing your body off to men. The mother says “... And this way they won’t recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming.” It sounds like she may feel her daughter is heading in that directions, the way the story is written it seems like they come from a low income part of the city, and maybe prostitution might be in common in the area that she’s from to survive even though her mother wants her not to be any part of that life. I feel like the mother may have done something in her past that makes her this way or she’s really insecure about herself, because of the way she treats her daughter and how hard she is on her about learning how to look nice
She doesn’t teach her daughter how to do it in the modern ways but now in the traditional ways. She says “ Cook pumpkin fritter in very hot sweet oil,” : Soak salt fish overnight before you cook it,” Just the way the mother uses her words and the tone given you can tell the writer wrote so the reader could tell that the mother really believes the work in the kitchen such as cooking is a women’s