Jamaica Kincaid Girl
In this analysis of "Girl" I wanted to look at the way women are portrayed by their class and how it affect their gendered actions. In doing this I wanted to look at what these women do professionally. By doing this I want to look at how Kincaid uses the words slut and lady. In this analysis I wanted to reflect on education and how it could potentially play into this story by looking at the different types of education the different classes receive. I also want to look at how this all plays into girlhood. When looking at this story after just reading it for the first time you see how the narrator is most likely a teacher or mother who is telling a young girl how to cook and clean. Throughout this I mainly just want to look at the two different types of classes Kincaid presents in this short story and why she chose what she did to perceive these two classes.
We can see how women try to portray themselves as a different class then they are actually in. We see this in the short story when Kincaid says "On Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like a slut you are so bent on becoming" …show more content…
We see this in how the story talks about how girls of different classes are treated differently. We see this by looking at the education that is taught to the two different classes, the type of girlhood they had, and the types of words that are used to describe who these girls will eventually become. The way the author uses the words slut and lady really show how different bother of these types of classes are. Also the way the author uses the repetition of "this is how" shows how a girl is taught to become the women she will eventually be. In this story though we can connect how all these things that I have stated work together to show how gender can be classed. The way slut and lady are used in this short story go with how these girls are taught to do these things which reflects what their girlhood is
We can see how women try to portray themselves as a different class then they are actually in. We see this in the short story when Kincaid says "On Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like a slut you are so bent on becoming" …show more content…
We see this in how the story talks about how girls of different classes are treated differently. We see this by looking at the education that is taught to the two different classes, the type of girlhood they had, and the types of words that are used to describe who these girls will eventually become. The way the author uses the words slut and lady really show how different bother of these types of classes are. Also the way the author uses the repetition of "this is how" shows how a girl is taught to become the women she will eventually be. In this story though we can connect how all these things that I have stated work together to show how gender can be classed. The way slut and lady are used in this short story go with how these girls are taught to do these things which reflects what their girlhood is