POV/Voice

“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is written in the second person. It seems like a motherly-like figure is having a conversation with a younger girl about what she must do and how she must act. The voice of the figure is very insistent and demanding; it really emphasizes that she needs to do certain things and act in certain ways because she is a girl and societal norms. The voice of the figure is also seemingly unenthusiastic and unhappy, maybe because she had to do the things she described as a younger girl as well and does not want this life for the younger girl she is speaking to.