In the short novel A Small Place, author Jamaica Kincaid harshly portrays government corruption as a chronic, broad, and overlooked issue on the island of Antigua. Kincaid attributes the dawn of systemic abuse back to colonial days, in which Western colonizers claimed to be working for the greater good of the people, yet solely capitalizing for their own prosperity. In the second section of the novel, the author references the notorious Western businessmen, the Barclay brothers. The two brothers gained considerable affluence in the slave trading industry, and used their savings to establish a banking company that still successfully operates worldwide today. Kincaid says, “I can imagine that if my life had taken a certain turn, there would be
