The Influence of Gender in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid

"Girls" written by Jamaican Kinkaid are basically a series of instructions given by adults, they are considered to be mothers of girls and she is the girls' mother, as she expects her daughter's gender to be a Caribbean society We formulate women's rules in. These instructions from mothers are related to topics such as housework, etiquette, cooking, social behavior, human relationships. The reader may think these instructions are very demanding, but these are all attempts of the mother to help her daughter grow properly due to her care for her daughter.

Jamaican Kinkade's short story "Girl" (1978) has a glimpse of the relationship between the girl and her mother. She represents Kinkaid when she was young. The story shows that in this relationship mothers are trying to specify what they think is suitable for women. She wants to impose these acts on girls (Kinkad). Furthermore, it is clear that girls are restricted to these prescribed actions. This austerity situation is caused by the girl taking a dominant action against her mother. Considering the background of Kincaid and the cultural keywords used, the short story emphasizes how several generations have crossed certain cultural features. In this respect, the story focuses on the importance of family relations in shaping individual actions.

By liberation of women, the mother - daughter relationship broke. Many mothers have an "old-fashioned" view of what women should be. Jamaican Kinkade's short story "Girl" is a typical example of this relationship. The theme of "girl" strongly suggests that women should be housewives, and that she should act in some way. Many older women believe that the role of women in their lives is domesticated. The theme of the girl reinforces this perspective. The third person viewpoint emphasizes the idea that women are at their own home. "Clean up white clothes on Monday, put them on the mountain of stone, rinse off color clothes on Tuesday, then put them to dry to clothes." (Kinkaid 296) This is because the mother does this to his daughter It is a way to say that it is a way to do.

Gender equality is a popular theme writer who presents his or her own personal opinion on the role of women in society. This is the case of "girl" by Jamaican Kinkade and "yellow wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Kinkade and Gilman used their studies to show feminist attitudes in women's role and social ranking in their respective era. Feminism can be defined as a diverse collection of social theory, moral philosophy, and political movement fundamentally promoted by women's experience. These experiences tend to develop around women's social, political and economic rankings. As a social movement, feminism focuses primarily on restricting or eliminating gender inequality and promoting women's rights, interests and social problems. Feminist literary criticism is a wider literary critique of feminist theory and feminist politics