Here is a copy of final draft of my Lucy paper

Lucy: A sexual deviant from the Caribbean.
Lucy is a book written by Jamaica Kincaid about a girl named Lucy. She left home to come to America, so she could leave her island nation and better herself. She left behind dirt for hardwood. She left behind one room huts for multi-room mansions. She left behind a poor island nation for the nation of opportunity. In this novel, Lucy comes to America, while discovering who she is as a person and as a sexual being. She likes sex with men who remind her of her father, she likes sex with men she can control, and she likes to have physical contact with women as well, but why? Is it her personality or her relationship with her parents? Could it just be simple curiosity? Why does Lucy like to have sex so freely without trust?
Mariah, Lucy’s employer, throws a party for Lucy, so she can meet new people and develop friendships. Dinah, Mariah’s best friend, introduces Lucy to her younger brother, Hugh (Kincaid 65). The two young adults begin to talk, and Lucy becomes very attracted to Hugh, but it is very important to point out she does not love him. Lucy and Hugh then have sex. She is attracted to his brown eyes, his voice, his mouth, and two other very interesting things: his smell and his height. (Kincaid 65)
His smell is interesting because he smells like shaving cream her father use to wear (Kincaid 66). She likes to have sex with men who remind her of her father. This occurs again when she is purchasing her camera. When the salesman is putting the camera in the box, she says to him, “You remind me of my father.” He then jokingly replies, “Why don’t you kiss me.” Lucy, however, takes this seriously, and waits two hours outside of the store. After he is done with work they go to his apartment and have sex (Kincaid 116). Lucy is attracted to men who remind her of her father, because she did not have a good relationship with her father growing up. When she finds out her father dies she is not upset by it, but more upset at her mother for marrying him in the first place. She never talks highly of her father, nor does she ever say she misses him. Women tried to kill her mother and herself, which is something also she could hold against her father. She never mentions her father when discussing the story of Mr. Thomas and Mr. Mathew, but it could be argued that her motivation behind her jealousy is because of her father. Mr. Mather and Mr. Thomas were fishermen who lived nearby. One day when Lucy and her friend, Myrna, were playing only Mr. Mather returned. He told a story of how he was at sea with Mr. Thomas, and Mr. Thomas fell overboard (Kincaid 103). When Lucy and Myrna were walking home Myrna started to cry. This shocked Lucy because she did not know Myrna was capable of feeling emotions like this. Myrna then said she was not sad that Mr. Thomas died but she was sad because they use to meet at a latrine at night, and he would stick his finger in her. Myrna would then receive payment for allowing this (Kincaid 105). Lucy became jealous of Myrna because she had an older man touching her, which can be linked back to Lucy’s father. It can be argued that Lucy has a lot of sex because of unresolved issues with her father.
The height is interesting because it shows her dominant personality. Lucy must be in control of everything, and she feels that she can intimidate and control, if she is taller than a man. Love, in Lucy’s eyes, is slavery, so she refuses to fall in love with Hugh, even though Lucy enjoys him. She is delighted to talk to him, adores being around him, and Mariah notices her change in behavior. Her refusal to be a nurse also points out her dominant personality. Lucy’s mother wants her to come to the United States to become a nurse. Lucy argues that she would not be a good at this because she cannot take orders, and she is too smart. Peggy, a girl Lucy befriends at the park, tells Lucy to stay away from Paul a man Peggy knows, because he is a pervert, which attracted Lucy to Paul even more, because Lucy is told she is not allowed to do something. Lucy refuses to fall in love with Paul, though they have a very sexual relationship (Kincaid 97). Tanner is a boy Lucy knew growing up, to whom she lost her virginity. She did not care about this until he was proud that he took something from her (Kincaid 82). She is upset that someone took something from her, even though she did not really care what it was. Lucy tried to control the boy in the library. She would make out with him, even though she had no feelings for him. Lucy was try to see how undone she could get this boy. Lucy’s “must be in control” attitude is why she likes to have sex. She sees sex as just one more way to be in control.
Lucy may have a lot of sex because she does not trust men, nor does she want to, and it explains why she does not fall in love. She does not want to be emotionally attached to someone and in her mind having sex with someone means she does not have to open up to them. According to Contemporary Novelists “Lucy simply wants to declare, ‘Your situation is an everyday thing. Men behave in this way all the time…. Men have no morals.’” Since Lucy may think men have no morals, she may not trust them. At one point in the novel Lucy states that her mother had always told her never to put a man before a woman. So it could be argued that Lucy’s mother has helped fuelled Lucy’s untrusting nature towards men. Most people would not have sex with someone if they did not trust them, but Lucy has proven throughout the novel that she does not have rational thinking.
Lucy is not a kind person. She is selfish. She is not kind to Mariah during much of the story. Mariah talks about how much she loves daffodils and Lucy freaks out on Mariah because in Lucy youth she had to say a poem about daffodils. Lucy treats Mariah in this way because Mariah is motherly to Lucy, and Lucy has had some sort of falling out with her mother (Concise Dictionary). Lucy even proudly declares herself the namesake of Lucifer (Concise Dictionary). Lucy cheats on Paul with the man from the camera store. She does not care about any of the men she had sex with. The only thing that Lucy cares about is herself. The reason she has sex so much may be because she just wants to have pleasure. She does not care how the other person feels. Lucy is all about Lucy.
Why does Lucy have so much untrusting sex? It may be because she only cares about herself, or she has father issues or because she is controlling or just selfish, but it is definitely not love. Lucy is not capable of love.

Works Cited
“Jamaica Kincaid.” Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography Supplement: Modern Writers, 1900-1998. Gale Research, 1998. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.:Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRc

“Jamaica Kincaid.” Contemporary Novelist, 7th ed. St James Press, 2001. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRc

Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.