This paper examines the novel's protagonist and how she is shaped by colonial oppression in six pages. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliography.
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Jamaica Kincaids novel "Lucy" details the arrival in New York city of a young Antiguan girl, Lucy, who has traveled to America to find
a new life. Lucy, as would be expected, is the product of the environment and culture in which she has been immersed since birth. What she finds in
New York is overwhelming in comparison. The sheer mass of the city dwarfs Antigua, as does the number of people, the massive buildings and the cultural diversity which exists
there. When Lucy first arrives she is overwhelmed by two contrasting sensual experiences in particular, the bright lights of the city contrasted with its dingy sidewalks, streets, and buildings.
She is impressed by such events as her first elevator ride and refrigerated food. She writes of the first night that she slept soundly but:
"it wasnt because I was happy and comfortable -- quite the opposite; it was because I didnt want
to take in anything else" Lucy has arrived in America to enter a new life,
a life which differs greatly from that she lived in Antigua. In America she will be an nanny but, even more importantly, she will be in control of her
own life. The contrast between the new and the old is not a contrast made for the purpose of contrasting cultures but instead for contrasting Lucys inner workings and
the factors which have influenced her to make her work that way. Although Lucy left Antigua with the pretense of going to nursing