Lucy: A Novel Analysis

Lucy's all secretive about exactly where her adventure in the U.S. takes place. From her initial descriptions, we get the impression that she's definitely in a big city. Some readers and critics ha...

Lucy, Lucy, Lucy. Everything we encounter in this novel—situations, characters, interior décor—we see from her perspective. Luckily for us, Lucy's opinionated style and unconventional way of l...

Family DramaIt's usually not all that fun to live through family drama, but it can be enjoyable to read about others enduring such misery (hey, we're just being honest).Something that makes Lucy a...

FrankLucy isn't one bit shy in telling us exactly what she thinks. When it comes to offering her impressions of other characters, Lucy tends to believe honesty is the best policy. She's equally tru...

It's probably best to be sitting down when reading Lucy. Like, don't try to read this standing up on the bus or something, because many of the sentences in this novel are so complex and intricate t...

The title Lucy really delivers. After all, this novel indeed focuses primarily on the experiences, changes, and perspective of a girl named Lucy. It's not like there's any bait and switch going on...

It's usually a bummer when the main character dies at the end of a book, right? Well, it's not much better when we have to leave our protagonist bawling her eyes out on the novel's last page.At the...

As far as the plot goes, Lucy couldn't get much simpler: a Caribbean girl comes to the U.S. and has some new life experiences. The End. Okay, okay, there's a little more to it than that, but follow...

Coming to (North) America Nineteen-year old Lucy comes to the U.S. from a Caribbean island and begins work as a live-in babysitter for Mariah and Lewis's four kids. As in any exposition worth its s...

Lucy says goodbye to life as she knows it on a small Caribbean island in order to take a babysitting job for a family in the U.S. Although we don't see anything of her life back in the Caribbean...

After arriving in the U.S., Caribbean native Lucy immediately starts working as a nanny to a well-off family with four kids with whom she'll also be living. Life in a foreign country takes some get...

Jamaica Kincaid has used 50 Cent's "In Da Club" as her ringtone. (Source) Just like Lucy, Kincaid travelled to the U.S. to work as a babysitter for an American family when she was a teenager. Even...

Who would've thought a book about a babysitter would be filled with so much sex? The novel doesn't start off very steamy, but it's not long before Lucy's sexual self-discovery becomes a major focus...

Freud (1.15)-20th-century psychologist credited with developing psychoanalysisPandora (3.23)-first human woman created by Greek Gods; she was given a box full of evils which she inadvertently relea...