In both “Half-Hanged Mary” and Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place, the overall tone grows confrontational, and each narrator challenges their oblivious onlookers. In “Half-Hanged Mary,” after the speaker understands the unfruitful results of relying on God, she becomes resentful and believes she is above Him. When she is brought down from the noose, she recalls all the women merely staring at her, and speaks with a sarcastic tone towards the bystanders. The mockery she depicts is the same dynamic that Jamaica Kincaid describes in A Small Place. Kincaid directs to her readers that when visiting her native land, they do not think of the rotten inner functions, and are only viewers of the pretty facade. She confronts her readers’ ignorance, and explains
