What is a central idea or concept in the book Girl by Jamaica Kincaid?

is referred
to as a short story by some
critics and as a poem by others.  It is useful to read it in
conjunction with
Kincaids , which also depicts an uncaring mother
bullying
her daughter by treating her as a servant and insulting her.
However, there might be another
aspect to the mothers behavior.   According
to one critic, in Girl Kincaid shows love and
family togetherness by creating
images of Western Caribbean familial practices that constitute a
string of
images that are the cultural practices and moral principles that a Caribbean woman
is
passing along to her young daughter.has taken common advice that daughters
are constantly
hearing from their mothers and tied them into a series of
commands that a mother uses to prevent
her daughter from turning into the
slut that she is so bent on becoming. More than commands,
the phrases are a
mothers way of insuring that her daughter has the tools that she needs to

survive as an adult. The fact that the mother takes the time to train the daughter in
the proper
ways for a lady to act in their culture is indicative of their
familial love; the fact that
there are so many rules and moral principles
that are being passed to the daughter indicates
that mother and daughter
spend a lot of time together. The reader gets the impression that the
advice
that the mother gives her daughter has been passed down from many

generations.