Such homosexual tendencies practiced not only by Annie but also of the other Caribbean girls become a running theme throughout the novel. In a span of a day, Annie and Gwen “were in love, and so walked home arm in arm together (Kincaid, 33).” Finally, Annie falls in love with the Red Girl, a girl so unkempt and unladylike as to earn Annie’s mother’s ire. There is Sonia, the very first girl to whom she admits to loving, and who, according to Annie, “was smaller than, even though she was almost two years older, and she was a dunce–the first real dunce had ever met (Kincaid, 7).” Annie also falls in like with a certain Albertine, but eventually falls in love with Gwen. Throughout the novel, Annie professes her love for different girls of varying types. The first form of resistance in the novel is in Annie John’s desire for other girls. Two important incidents mark some of the most important elements of resistance in Annie John. However, it is precisely through Kincaid’s use of this literary genre that her resistance to imposed colonial values come to play. Initially, the novel seems to conform to traditional Bildungsroman, a novel of growth and development of a single protagonist who is usually white and male.
In that span of time, Annie struggles to come to terms not only with her own identity, separate but intimately entwined with her mother, but also with the stifling predominance of the English colonizers. Jamaica Kincaid’s novel, Annie John, chronicles the growth of the eponymous protagonist from the time she was ten years of age to her last day in Antigua, when she was sixteen. Literature Analysis of the Novel “Annie John”
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