Jamaica Kincaid "Girl"

"Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid consists of a list of orders from a mother given to her daughter about how to handle herself in life. Since all of her advice and orders are stringed together, it seems as if maybe the mother is having a flashback of all the things she advised to her daughter. The mother wants her daughter to be a good person and not the "slut" she often warns about. The last line is very interesting. The mother says, "You mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?" It seems as if the daughter takes heed to what the mother was telling her over a period of time. Because the mother says this, I believe that in the end the daughter turns out to be a very smart woman. The baker knows this and will not let her near the bread because he knows that she is aware of whether it is good or not.