In recounting the losses, one reviewer said, But there is yet a greater loss. That is their defeat. The saddest and deadliest harvest of oppression is not the mutual hatred that is natural between those at the top and those at the bottom but the incestuous, unnatural hate within the family of the conquered. It is important to feel that anger and not simply deny or resent it. Let it in, even if in the end you cannot accept it.
Intense anger is unsettling.
It can even be threatening. Nevertheless, to read this book at any rate,we have to deal with it. It's also important to try to understand why Kincaid, Lucy, and Xuela feel such rage. He writes about exile and about English. Questions for Reading.