Growing up in Antigua herself, Kincaid is very familiar with the foreign
culture. She is also familiar with the hardships felt when crossing into
another country. Lucy, her novel, was about a girl that was born in Antigua.
With this information, the reader questions whether or not Lucy is completely
fictional. Come to find out, Kincaid wrote Lucy’s personally almost parallel to
hers. One example is about how Lucy hates daffodils. The exact same thing
happened to Kincaid. When Antigua was under British rule, they were forced to