Parents deeply inculcate personal expectations on their children while raising them. The mother in Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” expresses a shameful predisposition to her daughter’s future, “this is how …show more content…
The author of the story provides an idea of his father as a rather volatile and prideful man, “papi was old-fashioned; he expected our individual attention when you were getting your ass whupped. You couldn’t look him in the eye either-- that wasn’t allowed.” like many cases, the man’s macho behavior in the Diaz family is attempted to be justified by traditional roles previously respected in their culture. What the child in the story perceived of his father implies negative thoughts of him, “Earlier that year I’d written an essay in school called “My father the torturer,” but the teacher made me write a new one. She thought I was