One of the main items in the world is the understanding of personal identity in this world and how person is related to it. The question is how the person feels in the stream of events and among other people, who make up the crowd, how person sees him/herself in this wide and infinite world. The personal realizing of his/her identity, relevance in the world is the main aim of the whole mankind. When somebody understands that he/she is on the right place, belongs to the appropriate culture and has already perceived the world through personal experience, this is the main point that he/she is in the right stream and has already found him/herself in life. The main character of the book Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid is the example of woman, who has come to the strange country, has experienced the change of cultures and has found herself in the world. The main factor, which influenced Lucy’s choice and her personal experience in the world, understanding of her sexuality in particular, was the change of the place of her habitation and the new culture, new area of existence. Starting the discussion of the world perception through personal experience, new aims and desires, the factors, which were the main in understanding of personal place in the world, should be discussed. Analyzing the novel Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid, it becomes understandable that the influence on the main character was provided through outside factors, the new culture, she appeared in. Furthermore, the new culture had changed not just the style of life, but also the very features of character of Lucy, her inner features, attitude to the world and surrounding, which led to the understanding of her own identity and her significance on the Earth, as personality. The beginning of the novel is not just the description of Lucy’s first day on her new job, but the description of the changes, which she had suffered as a newcomer in the new country and the attitude to the new culture. To the word, Lucy wanted those changes, she wanted to leave her native land and to become the part of the new life, which, she thought, will be in the United States of America. Elevators, refrigerators and other American things, which were common for others, were strange for her. She describes that “the ride in the elevator, being in an apartment, eating day-old food that had been stored in the refrigerator” (Kincaid, 2002, p.4) was new for her and strange. “In the place I had just come from, I always lived in a house, and my house did not have a refrigerator in it” (Kincaid, 2002, p.4) is Lucy’s description why that was new for her. Reading the novel, it becomes understandable that for person, who has just come from West Indies, the United States of America is a huge place with lots of new things, which she never understood before, but “would grow used to it and like it very much” (Kincaid, 2002, p.4). The factor, which influenced Lucy’s understanding of herself, was new culture, as it has already been mentioned, as people are social beings, and when they appear in the new atmosphere, they become to behave differently, their opinion is changing and becomes other. The same happened with Lucy, having come to the United States of America