Throughout A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid used a second-person point of view to address her claims by constantly using the pronoun ‘you.’ She did this in the opening by describing how a vacation in Antigua would be as a tourist. However, in my opinion, her description is on the more brutal side. For Example, on page 4, she states

… but they were much too green, much too -lush with vegetation, which indicated to you, the tourist, that they got quite a bit of rainfall, and rain is the very thing that you, just now, do not want, for you are thinking of the hard and cold and dark and long days you spent working in North America (or, worse, Europe), earning some money so that you could stay in this place (Antigua) where the sun always shines and where the climate is deliciously hot and dry for the four to ten days you are going to be staying there;…

These descriptions amplify her attitudes towards whites (‘you’) having the luxury of visiting this small place. Kincaid deliberately uses ‘you’ to make us feel like we are intentional characters in this novel. You may strick you by playing into this role, but I think that was the point Kincaid tried to express. Having your attention grabbed by placing ‘you’ in the story allows Kincaids’ message to be painted clearly–that ‘you’ are unmindful because ‘you’ are a tourist—an individual who gets can leave from the dull life ‘you’ have and visits a small place that is corrupt and in poverty because of your peoples’ wrongdoing.