| | | | | wants to change her future. She is greatly influenced |
| This article is devoted to the issue, which has been | | | | by West Indian, her home. Moreover, Lucy is caught |
| raised in a novel Soledad’. The article briefly | | | | between two cultures, West Indian culture and |
| analyses the novel written by Angie Cruz. It presents | | | | American one. She rejects her heritage and wants to |
| similarities and differences of social norms and | | | | become an American. Besides, Lucy is in a conflict |
| economical status in the society described by the | | | | with her mother and her own family is so far from her. |
| author. Moreover, the article gives a deep look inside | | | | In this novel, as well as in Breath, Eyes, |
| the book, stressing the description and presentation of | | | | Memory’, mother-daughter relationship should be |
| mother-children relationship and gender roles in the | | | | described in a more detailed way. Summarizing, both |
| novels. | | | | novels depict great difficulties in family relationships |
| This is a review of a novel Lucy’ written by | | | | influenced by cultural, economical and social climate. |
| Jamaica Kincaid , which analyze gender roles, | | | | The novel Soledad’ written by Angie Cruzis |
| mother-children relationship. In the article special | | | | her first novel, in which the author depicts |
| attention is paid to social norms and economical status | | | | mother-children relationship and emphasizes the |
| in the society described by the author. The novel | | | | importance to remember one’s roots and |
| Lucy’ written by Jamaica Kincaid is a story | | | | culture. Soledad is a major character of the novel who |
| of an individual. This is a story of a young girl who has | | | | grew up in the Dominican community. She does not |
| come to America from West Indian. The novel is the | | | | want to accept her roots and moves to Manhattan, |
| description of two cultures - West Indian culture and | | | | America. However, her family needs her return as |
| American culture represented by a family, in which the | | | | Soledad’s mother falls mentally ill. Soledad is |
| main character works and lives. | | | | ashamed of her motherland, family and especially of |
| Lucy is divided between two countries and cultures. | | | | her mother. She wants to be far away from her |
| She is angry with her mother and does not want to | | | | home, however, she returns home to help her relatives. |
| read letters from her. She tries to wipe off all her | | | | The novel Soledad’ is a mysterious novel, |
| memories of her mother. She says, I had come to | | | | which mentions Soledad's spurious paternity. Besides, it |
| feel that my mother’s love for me was | | | | shows the belief in supernatural, when |
| designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I | | | | Soledad’s relatives want her to come back as |
| didn’t know why, but I felt that I would rather be | | | | this may help her mother to recover. The novels |
| dead than become just an echo of someone. (Kincaid, | | | | describe the difficulties in mother-daughter relationship |
| p. 36) In this novel the major character moves to | | | | and the impossibility of a mother to give everything |
| America leaving her move in another country. This is a | | | | that her child needs. These books show almost no |
| completely different situation if compared to the novel | | | | social opportunities for the development and a |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory’ where the heroine | | | | better life’, the absence of a father in the |
| was abandoned by her own mother in a childhood and | | | | daughter upbringing and all the following consequences |
| finds her much later when moving to America. | | | | — anger, shame and a wish to be far away |
| In Lucy’ the heroine rejects her past and | | | | from home. |