The short story, Girl, seems like a personal story of the author that addresses and describes multiple young girls across all race. In the story, Kincaid talks about how a typical young girl would spend her day. She said “wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk bare-head in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil.” The author also seems to recalled life in her early childhood and apply it to women and poor people. Kincaid explains what should be done before cooking a salt fish. And she further advices in what way to eat so it can’t offend other people who doesn’t have it. Those statements are about what a young girl should do in the presence of poor people.

The author also talked about abortion and how to keep a man. She said “this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child;” and she describes how to behave in the presence of men. These seem like inner struggle she was going through and wanting to express it in the next person or second person point of view.  This story shows a strong connection between the author’s inner struggle and how she perceived other young girls to be.