Girl by Jamaica Kincaid is a short story on the growth and rules a girl must follow to become a respectable woman from a mother to her daughter. It is a piece written about the ideals of a woman during the 1970’s in the deep south due to some of the tasks being given like, the different ways to set the table for various occasions or how to make preventative medicine with herbs and other natural resources. Throughout the short story we see the mother impart her wisdom onto her daughter, but we also see a judgmental side of the mother. Woven throughout the story the mother essentially tells her daughter do/don’t do this or else you will surely be the slut that you are already becoming. Some of the unacceptable habits that the mother is accusing
