The Imagery of Clothes (“Girl”)
“Girl” opens with the assertion: “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.” The ability to sort the clothes based on their colors and to clean them thoroughly confirms that one is a girl and not a boy. According to the speaker , in “Girl”, meticulous laundering is a womanly task that should be taken up by all girls.
The Imagery of the Night (“In The Night”)
The exposition of “In The Night” presents the imagery of the night. Kincaid writes, “ In the night, way into the middle of the night, when the night isn’t divided like a sweet drink into little sips, when there is not just before midnight, midnight, or just after midnight, when the night is round in some places, flat in some places, and in some places like a deep hole, blue at the edge, black inside.” The night that Kincaid is referring to is even so it cannot be divided, because it is indissoluble, into the pre- or post-midnight time frames. The profundity on the night is demarcated by the blackness. The blackness that is inherent at night endows the night with a rounded profile that cannot be fragmented.
