Lucy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jamaica Kincaid
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: An unnamed city in the United States
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Lucy Josephine Potter, the protagonist, a young woman who has left her home in the West Indies to work as a live-in child care provider at the home of Mariah and Lewis. She finds the United States to be very different from her former home and experiences homesickness at first. Although she takes excellent care of Lewis and Mariah’s four little girls, she is restless, rebellious, and intent on acquiring her independence by separating herself from her mother, both physically and emotionally. She cannot forgive her mother for denying her the ambitious future...
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