Da-duh

Da-duh is the narrator's eighty-year-old grandmother. She has lived her whole life on Barbados and is confident and proud of her lifestyle, surroundings, and ways of looking at the world. She dislikes the trappings of the modern world, such as any form of machinery, and is uncomfortable in the city of Bridgetown. When Da-duh first meets the narrator, the narrator imagines that she saw "something in me which for some reason she found disturbing." However, Da-duh also feels connected to her granddaughter, as evidenced when she clasps her hand. Da-duh is completely at home in the countryside of St. Thomas where she lives. She takes her granddaughter on daily walks on the land surrounding her house. She shows off the glories of the natural world, and listens with an air of fear to her granddaughter's descriptions of life in New York. She is not accustomed to having her...