Similarly, Kincaid illustrates benna, symbolize sexuality, subject the mother to remind her daughter about the identity of it. The daughter tries to defend herself and says, “but I don’t sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school says” (Kincaid). Despite the fact that the daughter may not deliberately compare benna with sexuality as her mother does, her protestations and by telling she knows very well the benna's tempting force, persona, and forbidden words. Indeed, the daughter, desperate denials may even clue that she really has sung benna in Sunday school with her companions, a sign of her blooming enthusiasm for young men and an indication of an expanding irritation with her mother's recommendation and interruptions into