The Beauty of Antigua

In the last section of A Small Place, Kincaid admires the beauty of Antigua. She describes the beauty as being being so intense that it is unreal. In this section, she states: "It is as if, then, the beauty - the beauty of the sea, the land, the air, the trees, the market, the people, the sounds they make - were a prison, and as if everybody that is not inside it were locked out". Therefore, through this quote we note that Kincaid addresses the mixed blessings of Antigua's beauty. In this quote, the outsiders are locked out of understanding what the live of the insiders are truly life. So, the insiders are locked in in a similar way. The inhabitants are only a part of the unchanging scenery of poverty.