At the end of her essay, “A Small Place”, Jamaica Kincaid writes: “The unreal way in which it is beautiful now is the unreal way in which it was always beautiful. The unreal way in which it is beautiful now that they are a free people is the unreal way in which it was beautiful when they were slaves”. (Kincaid 80) In this quote, Kincaid writes about how the island of Antigua has always been in more or less the same situation that it has always been in, before and after both the freedom from slavery and being under British rule. Kincaid writes, in the beginning of the section that the quote lies in, that Antigua is too beautiful which makes everything within the environment seem fake and like a “prison”. Because Kincaid equates the word
