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Compare And Contrast A Walk To Jetty

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“A Walk to Jetty” by Jamaica Kincaid mainly talks about Annie accepted the idea that she is a separate person. When she wakes on the final morning, her house seems like everything in the house only defines her family not Annie herself. On the other hand, “Reflections on a 17 year old self” by Sylvia Plath, mainly talks about what I’ve seen n these years about tragedies, happiness and many other thought makes what her think about the stuffs makes her afraid. Kincaid and Plath both tell about the intergenerational conflict, however Kincaid talks more about family conflict. First of all, “A walk to jetty” and “Reflections on a 17 year old self” both tells the intergenerational conflict, for example, the quote from “A walk to jetty”, “If someone had asked me for a little summing up for my life at the moment as I lay on my bed,I would have said......I used to be and the things I used to feel are as false as the teeth in my father’s brad” From this …show more content…

Everything in the house defines them and not her. Annie needs to find a new place of her own in order to be free to articulate her self. For this reason, she feels nostalgic in her house, but also matter-of-fact about her need to leave it. These are the inter generational conflict between Annie and her family. On the other hand, “Reflections on a 17 year old self” it also talks about inter generational conflict. For example, from the quote “I was tired of everything. I didn’t see how school would make me successful. I was smart, and I got straight A’s. The grades, yes they’d get me to college, but what then? A successful job? Highly respected among society? I didn’t give one about being in the top of my class. Why was it that all these people have to equate success to

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