Literary Analysis Assignment
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Added on 2020-05-01
Literary Analysis Assignment
Added on 2020-05-01
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Running head: LUCY: AN ANALYSISLUCY: AN ANALYSISName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
LUCY: AN ANALYSIS1Lucy is a short novel by Jamaica Kincaid, that was published in 1990. Upon publicationit faced serious allegations of being “angry”. Though it may seem like a normal thing today,when venting out and expressing anger is easier and more accepted and the set ofcircumstantiality that attribute to these reactions are given care and tried to be understood, in thetime of this book’s publication the social norms were quite different (Martin). Critics argued thatin the vortex of anger, love was missing, and the veil that was supposed to depict theprotagonist’s quest for love came out as mislead and even misplaced. The novel begins with the arrival of a teenage Lucy, from her native home in the WestIndies, to America, where she dreams to lead a good life and hopes for a fresh new beginning(Leaman). While she expects to live a life without the fuss she had to face in home, the situationsthat she would be facing while seeking and finding a job, leads to a lot a complexities and evenseems to be melodramatic at some points. However, this is in fact a trademark of Kincaid, whosewriting style is more about angry outbursts and fits of rage, rather than just expressions of love orgushing about emotions (Holmes). The novel, like many of Kincaid’s works, have someautobiographical aspect to it. Lucy shares the birthday with her creator, and just like Kincaid,Lucy also leaves her home in the Caribbean to come to America to be a house assistant. The novel is a unique tell tale of cause and effect. The very plot of the novel rests on thepoint that if Lucy did not feel trapped in her own home because of her mother and decided thatleaving her home is the only way she could be normal and not be controlled. Indeed, the verypush that gave the novel a start is part of the causality analysis that is the area of focus in thiscurrent paper. The entire flow of events resembles this causality effect throughout the book. What Lucyfaces in her new home, in the new country, where she is employed by a wealthy couple, makes
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