In Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” Kincaid’s the reader response theory can be shown through the overall breakdown and decipherment of the text. The message in which text reflects is the importance of the “intellectual woman” in society and what one must abide by in order to be considered so. In order to fulfill this standard the protagonist overall intelligence is shown through the duties she performs. The last line of the text states “but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; 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?” From the reader’s perspective (assuming that they have experienced this pressure)one can interpret this last line as a sexual metaphor concerning a woman’s overall intelligence/womanhood. Essentially, If one is not good enough or clean enough then one “should not be part” of the community. The reader can infer that the authoritative character is repressing the sexuality of the narrator. Essentially, limiting the narrators ability to express how they feel/ even down to the thoughts of this character. Her thoughts are altered out of fear itself. There is a fear of society’s standards and norms, alongside the fear of not being able to properly align with the social structure in which a woman of esteem should walk high and carry themselves a certain way.